The question
How would you sum yourself up in three words?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Novelist and editor; Nobel laureate in Literature, 1993
You are your best thing.
Epic Quotes, Interview, Epic Quotes, 25 July 2020 source ↗
Loyal, funny, driven.
Eager to learn.
Hard-working, creative, irreverent.
Complicated, chaotic, messy.
Writing before dawn began as a necessity—I had small children when I first began to write and I needed to use the time before they said, “Mama”—and that was always around five in the morning. Many years later, after I stopped working at Random House, I just stayed at home for a couple of years. I discovered things about myself I had never thought about before.
I always thought I was able and competent all the while I was rearing them.
I, at first, thought I didn’t have a ritual, but then I remembered that I always get up and make a cup of coffee while it is still dark—it must be dark—and then I drink the coffee and watch the light come. And she said, “Well, that’s a ritual.” And I realized that for me this ritual comprises my preparation to enter a space that I can only call nonsecular … For me, light is the signal in the transition. It’s not being in the light, it’s being there before it arrives. It enables me, in some sense.
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
it's not profound regret. It's just a wiping up of tiny, little messes that you didn't recognize as a mess when they were going on
Neil Gaiman, Chris Bryant, Paula Wilcox, Kelly Hoppen, Russell Mael, Indira Varma
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