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
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When I started writing 'Sex and the City,' I was writing about women I knew in New York who were in their 30s. In a way, this is the women I was writing about in 'Sex and the City' 10 years later. They're more grown-up, more established. They've found their ways,
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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.
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I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.
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I think that one of the things that has changed the perception is that there are so many more single people. In New York City, it's 47 percent. When you have that many people who are single, they have a bigger voice and they're more willing to speak and say, 'We're not miserable, we're not sitting at home waiting for Mr. or Ms. Right, we're having a good time.' And I think single people have better friendships.
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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.
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New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.
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I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.
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It was like time began to reverse, and somehow they managed to look better and younger-looking than they had in their thirties,
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It's really about the challenges, dreams and fears of contemporary, modern women.
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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.
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Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of time there - I write up there. So I kind of have the best of both worlds and I love going up there.
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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.
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The women in this book have realized that you can't completely rely on men, ... Women have got to rely on themselves.
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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.