Candace Bushnell Quotes

I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all.

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

I still haven’t figured it out completely.

You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am."

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.

I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.

I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.

As soon as I did, everything, the whole room, just clicked.

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

When you're teaching a hard concept and the students all have puzzled looks on their faces and then suddenly you can see that 'aha' moment, that they got it, that's just an incredible thing.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

The best I can do is, it's like a 'ding!' You're writing, and then something starts falling into place, and you hear or feel a ding. And it just feels - it's going to be okay.

You can't discover light, by analyzing the dark.

Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.

I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.

Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise.

A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.