Debbie Macomber Quotes
I'm a yarnaholic. That means I have more yarn stashed away than any one person could possibly use in three or four lifetimes. There's something inspiring about yarn that makes me feel I could never have enough.
Quotes to Explore
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There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
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I cried like a baby. When no one could see me or hear me. Not because I feared what cancer would do, but because I didn't want the disease. I wanted my life to be normal, which it could no longer be.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the daylight starts changing, I want to be out West.
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We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.
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Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
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If I write something, and I'm going to put in all that love and energy, I want to direct it.
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Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.
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When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an autograph.
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If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
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Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
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I don't think I make dance music. It's not even 4/4. And it's slow.
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If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.
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I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.
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I do love that witches haven't really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.
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I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.
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Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
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I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.
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If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
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I think it's possible to have been a happy child, as I was, and still question and push back with regard to societal conventions.
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You don't dare to think ahead too much, for you don't want this melted under the heat of your attention, don't want it gone from your life.
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When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.
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In every sense then, writing is thinking
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I'm a yarnaholic. That means I have more yarn stashed away than any one person could possibly use in three or four lifetimes. There's something inspiring about yarn that makes me feel I could never have enough.
