Candace Bushnell
Candace Bushnell
Candace Bushnellis an American novelist and television producer. She wrote a column for The New York Observerthat was adapted into the bestselling Sex and the City anthology. The book was the basis for the HBO hit series Sex and the Cityand two subsequent movies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 December 1958
CityGlastonbury, CT
CountryUnited States of America
alter character created ego
That was a character I created -- my alter ego 10 years ago. She was like me,
besides club clubs good great people
That's what's great about life, ... You don't have to keep doing things you did in your 30s. Besides it's not really a good look being in a club when you're 46 years old. The people in the clubs could be your children.
books difficult people
That's kind of a difficult question, because people say I'm one of the people who started it ... but I think my books are much more satirical.
happiness love
You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.
man natural seems
One has to be open-minded when the right man comes along. And I know it's freaky, but this just seems like the natural thing to do.
career fortune pages seeing successful trying women
This is about women trying to become their own Mr. Big for themselves. It's about the new kind of successful career women who we're seeing on the pages of Fortune magazine.
stories
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.'
I think when I was 12, I started reading Evelyn Waugh, and I loved Evelyn Waugh so much, and I thought: 'This is how the world really is. If I could be Evelyn Waugh, then I would be happy.'
characters either themselves women
I think that they're characters who women either are themselves or are their friends.
felt magazines takes
I was all excited. I'd been writing for women's magazines and felt marginalized. No one takes you seriously.
challenges dreams fears modern
It's really about the challenges, dreams and fears of contemporary, modern women.
couple deals hopefully next signed
I haven't signed any deals yet, but there's a lot of interest. Nothing's been finalized, but hopefully it will be in the next couple of weeks.
certainly morning till
I certainly don't want to be out till 4 to 5 in the morning now -- I don't want to do that anymore,
patents bigs leather
Patent leather wedges-they were big when I went to prom!