Candace Bushnell Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Candace Bushnell
Candace Bushnell Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Maybe all men are a drug. Sometimes they bring you down and sometimes, like now, they get you so high.
I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas.
A man came up to her. Expensively tailored suit. Okay, he wasn't exactly a man because he was only thirty-five. But he was trying.
Is this better or worse than being married and living in the suburbs? Better or worse? Who can tell?
- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it.
+ Then you shouldn't be a writer.
+ Then you shouldn't be a writer.
And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don't have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life?
Maybe you can't have it both ways. His life and your life. How do you put two lives together, anyway?
Just because something doesn't last forever, it doesn't mean it wasn't meaningful while it did last. It doesn't mean it wasn't important.
When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.
Have I ever been in love? Really in love? And why is it that with each new guy I think I'm more in love with him than the last?
It was the first honest emotional connection I'd had in a while. So I immediately panicked and had to leave.
And if you were always spending your time getting over your past, how were you supposed to get on with your future?
Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside ... Everyone has to find it for themselves.
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.
People are always telling women to lose weight, and then when they do, other women attack them for it.
The world is full of people who all want the same thing, and you have to do a little something extra to make them remember you.
Guys are like dogs: they never notice if you've changed your hair, but they can sense when there's another guy sniffing around their territory
Don't be silly, my dear. Threats are only meaningful if you have the power to execute them. And you, my dear, do not.
Rule number three: Best friends always think you deserve the best guy even if the best guy barely knows you exist.
I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.
This, Sebastian is no mere purse. And, you shouldn't call a handbag a purse ... a bag, on the other hand, is meant to be seen.
My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
She could tell by Philip's attitude that his writing wasn't going well again. He was joyous when it was and miserable when it wasn't.
His mother had become impossible, as, he supposed, all elderly people were when they refused to accept that their lives had to change.
I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.
It was important to remember who you were and where you came from, no matter how successful you became.
I have this theory: You can get away with anything as long as you act like you're not doing anything wrong.
What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.
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.
Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I'm afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?
I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
He was juggling issues and solving problems, which was why his brain had no space left for memories.
As long as you're neurotic and crazy, he's great. But once he solves all your problems, he becomes the problem.
My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.'
Your moustache," I continue. "It's kind of like me wanting to be a writer. It's part of me. I don't know who I'd be if I didn't want to be a writer.
Love is dangerous, if you know it's dangerous, that makes you treasure it, and you'll work harder to keep it.
Remember the stories you used to write? About that billionaire. You made fun of his fingers! Woo-hooo. 'Short-fingered vulgarian,' you called him.
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.
You choose the end of the summer to fall in love with this guy
because secretly, you don't want it to last.
because secretly, you don't want it to last.
That was the wonderful thing about New York: Years of bad blood could be wiped out with a single gesture of friendliness.
Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.
Sometimes I think all the trouble in the world is caused by men. If there were no men, women would always be happy. ~Carrie