Donna Tartt: 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 Donna Tartt said elsewhere, not written here

All kinds of ridiculous things, like worrying about the lobsters I see in restaurant tanks in Chinatown.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 October 2013 source ↗

Others on this question

Lleyton Hewitt Australian professional tennis player

My wife cleaning.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 July 2016 source ↗

Abigail Breslin American actress

I always think that my ceiling is going to collapse on me.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 January 2014 source ↗

Michael Ball English singer, presenter and actor

Having got Aspects of Love back into the West End.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 May 2023 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 ↗

I was very disappointed when I realised I was never going to be an Olympic gymnast, but that was a long time ago.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 October 2013 source ↗

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