Explore Quotes by Candace Bushnell

My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.'

Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.

I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.

I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'

Even as a kid, I never liked breakfast. I just don't like to eat then. I like to get up and work. I think sticking a whole bunch of carbohydrates in your stomach in the morning is probably the worst way to begin the day.

The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.

As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.

I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.

You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.

I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.

I'm really enjoying being single. I'm not even looking to meet anybody, which is so freeing.

Sometimes I want to be on 'The Real Housewives of New York.' I want to remind them to figure out how to get along and support each other.

The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.

I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble.

Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.

Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.

Happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.

I don't go to parties to meet men. I go to parties to stand in a corner and watch people.

Patent leather wedges-they were big when I went to prom!