Answer the Questions from the Proust Interview

I think it’s so much fun and so revealing of myself to take personality quizzes and “tests”. It’s even more fun to take them with someone else! The conversations that ensue….

Here’s one you may enjoy.

In the back pages of Vanity Fair each month, readers find The Proust Questionnaire, a series of questions posed to famous subjects about their lives, thoughts, values and experience. Reading Andre Maurois's Proust: Portrait of a Genius will provide more insight into what this is all about. (From http://www.chick.net/proust/question.html)

Many of us are more familiar with the interview format from James Lipton, the host of the TV program Inside the Actors Studio, who gives an adapted version of the Proust Questionnaire to some of his guests. It’s noted that Lipton has often incorrectly characterized the questionnaire itself as an invention of Marcel Proust.

The questions below came from the popular series of Nikki Heat books by Richard Castle. Fun reads!

The Proust Interview

From Heat Rises 2011, page 96

1. Name your favorite author.
2. Name your favorite hero in literature.
3. Name your favorite poet.
4. How do you wish to die?
5. What musician has impacted your life the most?
6. What qualities do you look for in a  man or woman?
7. Who would you have liked to be?
8. What’s your present state of mind?
9. What’s your idea of misery?
10. What’s your motto?
11. What’s your ideal dream of earthly happiness?

Question for you: Which questions came easily to you and which were more difficult to answer? Did you give an answer for each question after some thought?

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