Audiences often ask if characters are based on real people. Indeed the impulse of the amateur is to write about who one knows. The professional on the other hand understands the impossibility of such a task. The creator of the character must know more about the character than anyone could ever possibly know about a real person. The author must possess the complete knowledge; what the person was wearing on Christmas morning when he or she was five, what presents he or she received, and who gave them and how they were given. A "character" therefore is a real person who exists in another plane, a parallel universe based on the author's perceptions of reality. When it comes to people don't write about who you know but what you know of human nature.

In 1997 Bushnell's columns were publiCandace Bushnelld in an anthology also called Sex and the City and soon after became the basis for the popular HBO television series sharing the same name. While attending high school in Glastonbury Candace was accompanied to her senior prom by Mike O'Meara now a nationally syndicated radio host who also dated Candace's sister "Lolly". Bushnell began writing for the New York Observer in 1993.

Sex and the City publiCandace Bushnelld in 1996 was the basis for the HBO hit series and two subsequent blockbuster movies. Candace Bushnell (born December 1 1958) is an American author and columnist based in New York City. Candace Bushnell is the critically acclaimed international best-selling author of Sex and the City Summer and the City The Carrie Diaries One Fifth Avenue Lipstick Jungle Trading Up and Four Blondes.