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

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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. "

" Nothing against resorts or Cancun or Carlos 'n Charlie's, but Guanajuato is different. If you want history, culture, and peace, it's perfect. "

" I'm queer - and queer, to me, is not being stuck in a binary and being kind of fluid. "

" No one guided me through it, but here is how it happened: I was in New York doing a play, and an agent got in touch with me and said he wanted to take me out for lunch. In the theatre, they never want to take you out for lunch, so I thought, 'Yes!' I went, I ordered steak, and he told me he thought I should write for TV. "

" 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. "

" A lot of the time, because we don't have many Latinx scenarios on the landscape, not just in television or film and other media, we haven't gotten the chance to tell our story from our point of view. "

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

" 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. "

" When I got to 'Looking,' I didn't know that you could write stuff and they would put it on TV. That was that experience. My boss was Andrew Haigh and he came from film; he had never done TV. It was his first TV show, and he was running it. And I think he was like, 'Write it, and we'll put it on.' It was lovely. "

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

" There is no 'generic' Latina. "

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

" When you're a starving artist, you make do. It didn't matter that I didn't know where my rent was coming from. "

" When I was in school, I didn't get exposed to Latino playwrights. "

" I am not a quiet person. "

" Pleasures. I had to cut them back so I can write. And it's worked! It so has. But I am the most boring human on the planet. "

" Raul Castillo was my first high school boyfriend. "

" My first time up to bat as a showrunner, what I did was hire an all-Latinx writers room. And it's a diverse Latinx writers room - we have an Afro-Dominican and Texicans and Chileans. It's diverse within its Latinidad. "

" At Shondaland, six out of nine writers were of color - not Latinx, but I was like, 'Wait, I can do that but for the whole room?' 'Atlanta' had done that, then I can do that. "

" In lots of ways, I've been trying to tell stories this way since I started writing plays: a female-centered story with queer, Latinx gaze. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes, when I was the only person of color in a room, you had to defend all the people of color everywhere. "

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

" You can't visit Guanajuato without going to the mummy museum. "

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

" I want to stay in Chicago. "

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

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

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

" I'm not a good business person when it comes to my writing. "