Sally Wainwright
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Like, where are you from?
Well, I was born in Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, and I grew up in West Yorkshire.
I grew up kind of in Halifax.
I went to university in York, which is North Yorkshire.
And then I finally went to live in London because...
At that time, people said, if you want to be a writer, you've got to live in London.
And that was always your dream?
Oh, yeah.
I really wanted to get away from, like a lot of people where you grew up.
It was like the back of beyond, and I wanted to be where it mattered.
Were you writing your whole life?
Always writing, yeah.
Yeah.
I never stopped writing.
You know, when you're a little kid, you write.
So me and my sister used to write stories and draw cartoons.
And that kind of thing.
And I remember when I was about like 10, 11, 12, me and my sister used to write plays together.
And it got to a point where I knew she was doing it to humor me.
And she was getting too old to do this.