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?

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

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

There was a time when my mum would sew costumes for the dance studio so we could keep doing our classes because we couldn't afford them.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.