This is the most powerful thing I can do! I'm going to be a writer. — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal." -The Carrie Diaries pg. 337 — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
It's a job. When I'm writing I'm going to do it five to six days a week and I'm going to work… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“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… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
As Im writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“There's no such thing as writer's block," she proclaimed. "If you can't write it's because you don't have anything to say. Or… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“Being a writer is all about having something to say. And it’d better be interesting. If you don’t have anything interesting to… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
I think when I was 12, I started reading Evelyn Waugh, and I loved Evelyn Waugh so much, and I thought: 'This… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Like me, he has a searing belief that books are sacred. They might not be to other people, but when you have… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“Don’t you ever get scared?” I ask. “Of what?” She says. “Of not being good enough.” “You mean at writing?” L’il asks.… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now.… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“Why shouldn’t I? I demand silently. Why shouldn’t I become a famous writer? Like Norman Mailer. Or Philip Roth. And F. Scott… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“I’ve had boyfriends before, and frankly, each one was a disappointment. There was nothing horribly wrong with these boys. It was my fault. I’m… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share
We hate guys who date more than one woman at a time. I've always believed that what's unacceptable in one sex should, by definition,… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share
“The car was on the FDR drive now and, turning her head, she glanced out at the bleak brown buildings of the projects that… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share
Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society. — Candace Bushnell Copy Share
The heart wants what the heart wants," she says, somewhat cryptically. I purse my lips in disapproval. "You'd think the heart would know better. — Candace Bushnell Copy Share
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.… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share
“The city was different back then--poor and crumbling--kept alive only by the gritty determination and steely cynicism of its occupants. But underneath the dirt… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share
All those men who end up disappointing you. After a while, you don't even want to have feelings anymore. You just want to get… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share
“I will not listen to you, or anybody else. Because you know what? Everyone think they know so goddamned much about everything and no… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share
Rule number one: Why is it that the one time a cute guy talks to you, you have a friend who's in crisis? — Candace Bushnell Copy Share
The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn't give a hang what other people think… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share