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Candace Bushnell

I wish I was one of those persnickety types who buys guidebooks and studies them, but I don’t have the inclination or time. I’m more of a ‘get on the plane, arrive at the destination and see what happens’ kind of traveler.

– Candace Bushnell

Candace Bushnell

I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.

– Candace Bushnell

Candace Bushnell

I started working for the ‘NY Observer’ when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, ‘Your stories are the most talked about stories in the ‘Observer’; you should have your own column.’

– Candace Bushnell

Candace Bushnell

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.’

– Candace Bushnell

Candace Bushnell

I was incredibly determined – I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children’s book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children’s division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children’s book for a series she was doing.

– Candace Bushnell

Candace Bushnell

I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college.

– Candace Bushnell

Candace Bushnell

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.

– Candace Bushnell

Candace Bushnell

Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I’ve wrestled with my whole life. I think it’s a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.

– Candace Bushnell

Candace Bushnell

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.

– Candace Bushnell

Candace Bushnell

We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit – more so than the pursuit of a boyfriend. When you have that core, you bring that core to every aspect of your life.

– Candace Bushnell

Candace Bushnell

The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.

– Candace Bushnell

Candace Bushnell

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.

– Candace Bushnell

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