Quotes from 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.

If you believe in love, you're setting yourself up to be disappointed.

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.

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.'

You can get used to anything, I guess, if you've been there enough.

It was scary how a girl couldn't live without friends.

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.

Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.

All men are a disappointment. No matter what anyone says.

I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love.

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.

It's hard to be careful, though, when you feel indestructible.