Candace Bushnell Quotes

Because I am fascinated by people and what makes them behave the way they do. I think it is one of the most fascinating things in the world.

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding

You have to know human behaviour … And the quality of your writing is absolutely capped at your understanding of human behaviour. You’ll never write above what you know about people.

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.

I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.

I'm just totally fascinated by people.

I have a natural curiosity for people.

Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they are from us, are perfectly well understood, the laws of the human mind, which are under our observation all day and every day, are no better understood than they were two thousand years ago.

I have an inate curiosity about people.

People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.

I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.

I've always been someone who really watches other people, human behavior. To watch it and be able to express it through your version has always been really exciting to me.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right.

I'm curious about people, and I'm curious about getting to the root of where they might be coming from.

I'm interested in character and people and motivations and things like that.

I am still very observant. I am absorbed by people and why they do what they do.

In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.

Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication.

I'm very interested in people, so if a character happens to be real, there's that much more to look at.

Acting has helped me understand people, not only because you are acting as a character, but also because you are watching other actors work. That really helps you identify in life when someone is acting, not being true.

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

I'm very interested in people, in general.