Jodi Picoult: What keeps you awake at night?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Jodi Picoult said elsewhere, not written here

Questions that I can’t answer – and that’s what becomes a book.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 September 2022 source ↗

Others on this question

Steffi Graf German tennis player

Andre, the kids, my foundation and sometimes the dogs.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 June 2013 source ↗

Harry Redknapp English football player and manager

It used to be worrying about football results.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 May 2019 source ↗

Angela Hartnett English chef

Thinking about work because I’m responsible for people’s jobs.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 August 2022 source ↗

Edwina Currie Former British politician, broadcaster and writer

Anxiety. Usually the best response is to think hard about things, work up some solutions and then go to sleep.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 June 2017 source ↗

I would not let Nick Cassavetes direct My Sister’s Keeper, the film. He said [the ending] was going to match what was in the book, then changed it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 September 2022 source ↗

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