Quotes by Ann Packer

About Ann Packer:

Ann Elizabeth Packer is an English former sprinter, hurdler and long jumper. She won a gold medal in the 800 metres and a silver in the 400 metres at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
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Meaning bad isn't the issue. Meaning you do what you do. Not without consequences for other people, of course, sometimes very grave ones. But it's not very helpful to regard your choices as a series of right or wrong moves. They don't define you as m...

Ann Packer

Such is the lot of the narcissist's child, to inherit her parent's umbrage over the world's indifference.

Ann Packer

How much do we owe the people we love? Now I would add a follow-up question: How do we cope with the fact that we can't necessarily give the people we love what they need?

Ann Packer

The hard thing for me is to say no to people.

Ann Packer

Some weeks there's no writing, and some weeks are full of writing.

Ann Packer

I'm happy to see book clubs on TV. Talking about books has always been an important and invigorating part of reading them, and it's nice that that is getting attention from the media.

Ann Packer

Yes, I do sew. I started when I was around 8 or 9 and have been doing it off and on since then.

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I write pretty much when I can. I used to be very particular about needing certain conditions for writing, but when I had children, I discovered that I was a lot more flexible than I thought.

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Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer.

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I did have imprinted on me the idea of trauma that changes things dramatically and suddenly. As a writer, I return to that again and again because it fascinates me, and it's where I come from, in a sense.

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It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with it—gradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when you understand there are no great changes ahead.

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Author Bio

  • NameAnn Packer
  • DescriptionAthletics competitor
  • BornMarch 8, 1942
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionMiddle-distance Runner
  • AwardsMember Of The Order Of The British Empire