Candace Bushnell Quotes

I knew I didn't want to be stuck in Stoke Newington for the rest of my life, hanging about with idiots. That wasn't for me. I wanted to go out and have a look around.

I like any place that isn't here.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

If I've been here a long time, I think: I must go to London and speak to someone or see a bus.

I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

I am tempted to keep the car in drive, And leave it all behind...

Also, this is our lives for a huge part of the year and we did not want to be in prison, 24/7. It was too oppressive. So, we were like, "How can we get out? Let's see their lives, a little bit." That was really fun.

It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.

The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect: let other people wait for a change. Travel is a sort of revenge for having been put on hold, or having to leave messages on answering machines, not knowing your party's extension, being kept waiting all your working life - the homebound writer's irritants. But also being kept waiting is the human conditon.

And after I dropped him off, I took the longest possible route home... I explored alleys and hidden roads I never knew existed. I discovered neighborhoods entirely new to me. And finally... I discovered I was sick of this town and everything in it.

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

I was living in Woodstock for a long time, and I thought, I got to get out of here, man.

I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.

There's almost nothing that distracts you from your day-to-day problems more than a trip. You're totally consumed in the present, you've got new sense impressions, you've got all this stuff to digest.

L.A. is a really good home base. I've grown up here, and so sometimes I have wanderlust even though I tour. You think it would be cured by touring, but sometimes I feel like I want to be somewhere else.

Growing up in the hot Last Vegas desert, all I wanted was to be free. I would daydream about traveling the world, living in a place where it snowed, and I would picture all of the stories that I would go on to tell.

I love being on the road. I sit at home too long, and I start to go a bit stir crazy.

There's something attractive about making people temporarily forget their actual age by taking them out of their normal lives so completely. Doesn't travel, by its very nature, strive to do this?

Sometimes...I just want to run away from it all

I have a house, I try to spend as little time in it as possible. Not always easy on the mind and body, but it's how I got myself to 80-plus countries. This kind of routine forces one to reinvent and improvise. The older I get, the more important this is to me.

I want to get away, I want to fly away. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation.