Colbie Caillat best Christmas Quotes – “Over the years, I’ve heard pop artists do some Christmas songs, and I haven’t fully cared for them. They weren’t the traditional Christmas music that I was raised on and love. Thinking of that, I wanted to make my songs mimic the classic Christmas songs.”
Jessie Buckley best Christmas Quotes – “Christmas in the Buckley household is hilarious – at the family dinner, we all have to do a song, no matter if you can sing in tune.”
Michelle Dean best Christmas Quotes – “I could be imagining it, but I believe myself to have exchanged sly, understanding nods with other people I see attending movies alone on Christmas Day.”
Ree Drummond best Christmas Quotes – “Christmas and Thanksgiving are the two days of the year where we know the spurs are going to stay off the boots because the family doesn’t have to work. It’s such a nice – and rare – treat!”
Maneet Chauhan best Christmas Quotes – “The crown of lamb has always been a quintessential Christmas dish, and growing up in India, we would read about lamb when learning about the holiday.”
Sophia Di Martino best Christmas Quotes – “My worst Christmas ever was in 1987 when Santa brought me and my sister a dose of chicken-pox. And my worst present ever was a Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner! I don’t like to sound ungrateful, but I do find vacuuming difficult to get excited about.”
Kate Leth best Christmas Quotes – “I’m a huge ‘Nightmare before Christmas’ fan, but that was also Henry Selick. I’m a really big fan of ‘Sleepy Hollow.’ I love ‘Big Fish,’ too, which is a bit different. There’s a really cool era of early-Burton stuff like ‘Ed Wood’ that I’m a big fan of.”
Kate Leth best Christmas Quotes – “When I was 14, 15, 16, I was wearing ‘Edward Scissorhands’ and ‘Nightmare before Christmas’ stuff. I saw ‘Sleepy Hollow’ a dozen times.”
David Hepworth best Christmas Quotes – “Christmas is a time for slipping into familiar patterns.”
John Lanchester best Christmas Quotes – “I love London in the rare parts of the year when it’s quiet, and no time is more reliably quiet than the week between Christmas and New Year.”
John Lanchester best Christmas Quotes – “Now that I’m an adult and have a big say in what we eat on Christmas Day, turkey doesn’t even make it on to the starting grid for consideration. It isn’t just my least favourite meat; it’s my least favourite protein.”
Elif Batuman best Christmas Quotes – “Why is there an end of the year? Because the calendar imposes numerical order on time. There is a natural fitness in the celebration of the New Year, a holiday of numbers imposed on things, with lists, as well as with Advent calendars and songs like ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas.'”
Elif Batuman best Christmas Quotes – “At the beginning of ‘A Christmas Carol,’ Scrooge embodies one of the central tenets of depression: that one has always been this way – and always will be.”
Elif Batuman best Christmas Quotes – “For much of my adult life, I believed, inaccurately, that I knew the story of Charles Dickens’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ – that I remembered it from childhood.”
Marc Platt best Christmas Quotes – “What makes ‘A Christmas Story’ universal, whether you celebrate Christmas or not, is that you recognize that family… It’s ultimately about a family being glued together for the holiday season.”