HG
To still be working.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 January 2023 source ↗
The question
What accomplishment matters most to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Others on this question
View all 192 →
Bryan Adams
Canadian singer-songwriter and musician
Paying my rent and being able to support my family from making music.
Una Stubbs
British actress, television personality, and dancer
Bringing up my three sons.
Joanne Froggatt
English actress
Being a decent person.
Neil Gaiman
Author of fiction, comics and screenplays
My kids, and getting some of the stories I had in my head on to paper in a way that wasn’t too far removed from the thing I dreamed about writing.
More from Helen George
View profile →Going through a divorce.
When I was young, I was pretty reckless – my 20s were quite hedonistic. I don’t know whether I’ve been close to death, but I may have been without realising.
A grandfather clock for my partner’s birthday.
To let things go.
Having no purpose.
As a child playing in my parents’ garden in Birmingham, which they still have, and where my daughters play, swinging on my swing that my dad made for me.
More on craft & work
- What is the worst job you have ever had? 230 answers
- How do you tell when a piece of work is done? 67 answers
- What do you do when you feel creatively stuck? 63 answers
- How does a new piece of work usually begin for you? 60 answers
- How much rewriting or revision do you typically do? 46 answers
- What part of your job would surprise outsiders because it takes up so much of your time? 41 answers
Also answered this
Lupita Nyong'o, Ralf Little, Jenna Coleman, Billy Porter, Robert Carlyle, Phil Daniels
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All craft & work questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject