Donna Tartt: 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 Donna Tartt said elsewhere, not written here

All kinds of ridiculous things, like worrying about the lobsters I see in restaurant tanks in Chinatown.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 October 2013 source ↗

Others on this question

Kathy Lette Australian-British author

Worrying about the faux pas I made earlier that evening. I tend to suffer from foot-in-mouth disease.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 June 2024 source ↗

Alan Dale New Zealand actor

The same as most people. Money and, will I ever work again?

Recorded Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 March 2009 source ↗

Ray Mears British woodsman and TV presenter

The sound of nightingales, but it is the most lovely sound. If someone said it was an elf playing a flute, I would believe them.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 September 2016 source ↗

Jodi Picoult American author

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

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

I was very disappointed when I realised I was never going to be an Olympic gymnast, but that was a long time ago.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 October 2013 source ↗

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