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I'm really enjoying being single. I'm not even looking to meet anybody, which is so freeing.
When it comes to people -- don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature.
That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.
A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal." -The Carrie Diaries pg. 337
What Sex and the City did for sex and relationships, Lipstick Jungle does for success and power.
You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.
Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I’m afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?
Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.
Maybe all men are a drug. Sometimes they bring you down and sometimes, like now, they get you so high.
... he was juggling issues and solving problems, which was why his brain had no space left for memories.
Rule number one: Why is it that the one time a cute guy talks to you, you have a friend who's in crisis?
I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas.
You choose the end of the summer to fall in love with this guy because secretly, you don’t want it to last.
Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.
It was the first honest emotional connection I'd had in a while. So I immediately panicked and had to leave.
Love is dangerous, if you know it's dangerous, that makes you treasure it, and you'll work harder to keep it.
Happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
As long as you're neurotic and crazy, he's great. But once he solves all your problems, he becomes the problem.
Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
There are so many beautiful girls around that after a while you start looking for someone who can make you laugh
I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.
Rule number three: Best friends always think you deserve the best guy even if the best guy barely knows you exist.
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.
And if you were always spending your time getting over your past, how were you supposed to get on with your future?
If you smile, even if you’re feeling bad, the action of the muscles will trick your brain into thinking you’re happy
There's a brief moment when you first wake up, where you have no memories. A blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness.
I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an old cashmere sweater.
My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.
My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.'
Sometimes I think all the trouble in the world is caused by men. If there were no men, women would always be happy. ~Carrie
Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.
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?
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.
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 love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.
The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
- 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.
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.
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.
As Im writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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.
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
My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
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.
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 on with your life.
I've always thought there are two ways of getting what you wanted in life.Forcing people to give it to you,or making them want to give it to you.
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.
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.