I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it gets going. I used to find it hard to start. Fear of the blank page. The first thing you write down won't bear any relation to what's in your head and that's always disappointing.

Victoria Wood CBE (born 19 May 1953) is an English comedian actor singer-songwriter screenwriter and director. Wood has written and starred in sketches plays films and sitcoms and her live comedy act is interspersed with her own compositions which Victoria Wood accompanies on piano.

She is noted for her skills in observing culture and in satirising social classes. Victoria Wood CBE (born 19 May 1953) is an English comedian actor singer-songwriter screenwriter and director. She started her career in 1974 by winning the ATV talent show New Faces.