What is your greatest fear?

Originally asked

Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.

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

Recorded Ephraim Asili said elsewhere, not written here
My fear, my anxiety, that I’m grappling with in this film, is that if we’re not able to struggle with the domestic things

Devika Girish, The New York Review of Books, 11 April 2021 source ↗

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Niamh Cusack Irish actress
I’m a real coward about flying. I write loving texts to my nearest and dearest just in case …
Recorded Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 October 2021 source ↗
J.K. Rowling Novelist and screenwriter
The same thing Molly Weasley saw when she let a Boggart out of the locked cabinet in ‘Order of the Phoenix’ – my loved ones, dead. If, however, you are talking about a fear that concerns only me, it would be being buried alive. I’m not sure how a Boggart would represent that; perhaps turn into a coffin around me? Urgh.
Recorded J.K. Rowling official website, 15 May 2004 source ↗
John Malkovich American actor
That the Proust Questionnaire will continue to be used by lazy, overworked journalists for another century or so (since you asked …).
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2013 source ↗

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