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

Jim Kerr Scottish singer and songwriter

Not much. Given that I’m up and active most mornings around 5am, I’ve had enough of everything by 9pm.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 October 2022 source ↗

Sheryl Crow American singer-songwriter

The state of our government and the direction that this crazy person is taking us in.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 April 2017 source ↗

Ralf Little English actor, writer, former semi-professional footballer

Worry about work: it’s a precarious business being an actor.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 February 2020 source ↗

My very long to-do list.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 October 2025 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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