Ronald Harwood: If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

The question

If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

Originally asked

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

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

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

Ronald Harwood

South African playwright and novelist

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

The death of my wife: I’d happily have gone first.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 November 2016 source ↗

Others on this question

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Tim Minchin Australian musician, writer, actor and comedian

I’d take back some dumb shit I said when I had no audience and found that being shocking made people laugh.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 July 2020 source ↗

Jodie Whittaker English actress

Getting my tongue pierced aged 15, when I had train-track braces on both my top and bottom teeth. Huge error.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 September 2018 source ↗

Heather Graham American actress

I spent too many years being hard on myself, like a drill sergeant in my head. I thought that if I was hard on myself, I’d get more results, but I now know that’s not true.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 March 2016 source ↗

Russell Howard British comedian and presenter

I wouldn’t lose my virginity at an army camp and then roll over on to an ants’ nest.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 February 2020 source ↗