The question
What do you fear most?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.
Not trying something I really want to do.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 June 2025 source ↗
Still nuclear annihilation.
Heights. For Children in Need, I had to abseil off the Orbit in the Olympic Park. It was the most terrifying thing I’ve done.
Wasting my life.
As a participant in the movement, as I was sitting in, I came to that point where I lost all sense of fear.
Myself. I didn’t know how to protect myself adequately when I was younger, and I think I would have experienced my youth differently if I had.
Being delusional and dreaming big.
A year ago. My understanding of what love is has changed immensely since.
Three days ago. I don’t even know why. Sometimes I just feel emotional about how vulnerable humans are.
None! We shouldn’t shame people for not having read “the greats”. There are always new greats emerging that may feel more relevant to our life experience, particularly female writers.
My late 20s, writing my third record.
Michael Flatley, Olivia de Havilland, John Malkovich, Mike Skinner, Bear Grylls, Maureen O'Hara
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