Quotes from Debbie Macomber

Sometimes, I think we're afraid to admit we want certain things. Especially things that contradict the image we have of ourselves.

She said interruptions were simply God's appointments.

We're each our own person, we live our own lives, make our own mistakes, learn from them and move forward.

we should lean into the pain, instead of running away from it.

But although she was with family and friends, she'd never felt more alone. She felt as if she'd lost a vital part of herself and she had - her heart.

I believe that our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there's a gain. Sometimes we're so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.

We have to use the experience. We can become either bitter or better.

Parents love their children. We might not always approve of the things you do, we might not like your friends, and cringe at some of the choices you make, but that doesn't change our love.

I generally read every night before I fall asleep: Brad does too. I find it comforting to lie beside my husband, each of us with a book in our hands. I see it as a period of calm and intimacy, and as the perfect metaphor-together, yet individual-for our marriage.

We all make mistakes. Big and small. But you don't have to let them define you forever.

I might be 30 years old, but a girl never outgrows the need for her mother.

Little did the old man know how much God liked to talk to His children, how He longed to listen to them.

I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.'

While it may not be a simple act, offering forgiveness not only has the power to heal relationships, it strengthens the well-being of those who give this life-changing gift.

Readers have actually changed the way I've done things, changed the course of my career even, about four or five times. Just from reader feedback.

I am a big popcorn fanatic. I love popcorn. In fact one year for my birthday, my husband bought me one of those big popcorn machines like they have in movie theaters.

My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.

We all face difficulties of our own, and how comforting it is to immerse yourself in a book - my book, any book, any romance. It's entertainment, it's escape, and it can even be an inspiration!

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.

I love the way knitting brings people together.

Maybe money can't buy love - but it can get you practically everything else.

I'd found love -- only to discover how fleeting it can be.

I've always been a creative speller and never achieved good grades in school. I graduated from high school but didn't have the opportunity to attend college, so I did what young women my age did at the time - I married.

Your heart has to let your head know what it wants.