Jodi Picoult: 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 Jodi Picoult said elsewhere, not written here

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

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

Others on this question

One after the other, thoughts come banging in – and it’s no sleep for you tonight, dearie.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 June 2025 source ↗

Anita Rani British broadcaster and journalist

Guilt for not being productive enough – ridiculous.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 July 2021 source ↗

Isabelle Huppert French actress

A good film, a good book, a good script, a long phone call.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 May 2018 source ↗

So many things. Every headline in the newspaper, global warming … the list goes on.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 February 2024 source ↗

I would not let Nick Cassavetes direct My Sister’s Keeper, the film. He said [the ending] was going to match what was in the book, then changed it.

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

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