Donna Tartt
American novelist and writer
All kinds of ridiculous things, like worrying about the lobsters I see in restaurant tanks in Chinatown.
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A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Not much. Given that I’m up and active most mornings around 5am, I’ve had enough of everything by 9pm.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 October 2022 source ↗
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Documentaries, my dog and Pornhub.
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My children, because they come with me wherever I go.
My impotence in the face of war.
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A friend named Paul Hill [one of the Guildford Four] spent 15 years in prison doing time for crimes he did not commit. We communicate most days. I admire the hell out of him.
I travelled all the way to the Arctic Circle to see the aurora borealis, then fell asleep and missed it.
That’s easy. I’ve consistently punched above my weight.
Like Celtic hitting the back of the net in the 90th minute of a Champions League football match.
In the Beatles.
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