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" I was obsessed with everything about 'Outlander' - the stories, the way it looked. I thought, 'You know what? I'm going to go to Scotland, and I'm going to find my own 'Outlander.'' "

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" Write about your experiences! When I moved to L.A., I didn't have any friends, and the office janitor was the person who I saw the most. He would always come in at around 10:00 P.M., and I would still be at my desk, so I wrote a play about a first-year TV writer and the friendship that she developed with the janitor. Our stories matter. "

Tanya Saracho

Friendship

Friends

She

" When you work in a writers room for a showrunner, you serve that story, and you serve that showrunner. I don't think it should be called writing; I think it should be called rendering content. Because you are there to render the content that is agreed upon in the room, and you're serving the voice of the main storyteller, which is the showrunner. "

" Other people started taking me seriously before I took myself seriously. "

" I am equally a writer and an actor and a director. "

" Young men and women of color get told 'no' by so many people. But just listen to your inner voice. Amplify it. Make it strong! "

" The hierarchy plays out in the writers room, and you, as a staff writer, need to know your place. "

" In TV, you're a 'writer for hire.' That means you're trying to guess what your boss wants and delivering that story. There's a lot of spitballing. The big thing is 'breaking story,' which means coming up with a story. You do it by episode and put it all up on a board. "

Tanya Saracho

Trying

Story

" People in L.A. think I'm insane to go back to Chicago during the winter. It's because I love my apartment and fleece leggings and my friends. "

Tanya Saracho

Friends

Love

" I hope to see more Latino stories on television - not just on a personal level, but for us in the industry. We shouldn't just exist when a show is attempting to be diverse. We have good stories, and we are worth it. "

" I'm interested in people's darkness - and humor in the darkness. "

" When you get a bunch of Latinxs together, we get to handle our stories. A cultural shorthand happens. "

" I was a playwright who was still learning the ropes when Starz took a chance on me to create and showrun 'Vida.' They nurtured and supported me during every step of the strenuous process, and that is a debt that cannot be repaid. "

" I know people seek me out to be their mentor, and I've chosen a few people I'm really invested in and nurturing their career and their aesthetic and just their person. "

" Putting on makeup before work is a meditative exercise. It incites me to think about how I'll tackle my day. "

" I always was missing that female brown queer perspective, and I think in 'Vida' we have that. A lot of things I wanted to touch on and deal with, I get to do here. "

" So many times, shows say they're set somewhere - like in Chicago, 'The Good Wife' - but it doesn't feel like Chicago. "

" It's mountains. The air is crisp. It's peaceful. You don't get spring break in Guanajuato. "

" What I notice a lot about millennials is that they have agency over their sexuality. "

" Any time you have to move in two days, it's crazy. It's like, 'Who am I going to get to take care of my cat? "

" There is no 'generic' Latina. "

Tanya Saracho

Generic

Latina

" I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that. "

" The thing is about 'Vida,' we're telling a very simple family narrative. There's nothing fancy about it. "

" Glutton things, those are things that are dangerous for me. My grandma and my aunt died of diabetes; I'm borderline diabetic. "

Tanya Saracho

Diabetes

Things

" I dress up cute sometimes to go to work, but TV writers don't! They just go however. "

Tanya Saracho

Sometimes

Cute

" I get a lot of emails of scripts and pilots, and they want me to give feedback, and sometimes I can't because it's so many. "

Tanya Saracho

Because

Sometimes

" The Latinas in this industry are really supportive and stick together. America Ferrera, Gina Rodriguez, Zoe Saldana, and Salma Hayek have all reached out and have helped promote 'Vida,' and it's because they get it. They really are about opening doors. The more there are of us, the more of a movement it will be, and it won't be just tokens. "

" I'm always writing. There's no stopping. It's just that you can't see it sometimes. "

" When you change media, perception is changed and then policy is changed. "

" I am so homesick every day of the week. "

" You're on set more when you produce an episode, and it's long hours, but you learn so much. "