The question
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.
The fact that I might wake up early.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 December 2024 source ↗
It’s usually a slight feeling that, having got through the day, I didn’t get any time to do any writing or something creative – it was a lot of admin, exhaustion from that and rumination.
The thought of infinity.
All kinds of ridiculous things, like worrying about the lobsters I see in restaurant tanks in Chinatown.
Remembering something I wish I hadn't said.
A good understanding of how to use a computer.
As someone who added to a situation rather than took away from it.
It feels like somebody giving you the keys to unlocking who you really are.
To all my ex-girlfriends because I never turned into the person I thought I was. And to Naomi Campbell, for not being ready to deal with my addictions.
Kind, insubstantial and dedicated.
The best possible understanding of who they are and where they came from.
Edward Fox, David Guetta, Riz Ahmed, Rachel Whiteread, Michael Ball, Emma Barnett
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