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Writer Quotes by Lisa Joy

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Lisa Joy’s comments on the writer’s role are delivered in nine concise lines, reflecting her blend of speculative vision and character depth. The selection offers a brief, forward‑looking look at how she treats narrative as a vehicle for future possibilities.

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For me, writing became a way of processing not just my own experiences, but the experiences of other people, and their pain.

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I was always interested in writing from an early age, but it seemed so far away and inconceivable, like wanting to be…

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No matter how long my day job hours were, I always made time to write. I wrote fiction, short stories, and poetry.…

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Fiction has always been a way of examining society and its flaws and trying to expose them.

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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't think it would really be possible.

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Holding women to the idea of 'write what you know' subtly reinforces the status quo. Writing is a chance to celebrate who…

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Part of what you try and do when you're writing is to just transcend politics and the moment in a way and…

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Growing up, I would take out books from the school library and hide them in the hamper. I'd wait until my parents…

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The great thing about fiction is you can talk about things without being didactic about them, but hopefully forge a connection with…

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There's a kind of beauty to a skyscraper.

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I don't see much of myself in the traditional Western hero.

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I had a lot of college debt. It's very difficult to go to a university that is as expensive as Stanford and then blindly…

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One of the most consistent defining qualities of sentience is that we define it as human, as the thing that we possess that others…

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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't think it would really be possible.

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Working on 'Westworld' has been an incredible experience in learning to make something with the scope of a feature on a TV timeline with…

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I've tried to always be incredibly overprepared in everything that I've done.

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We subverted the entire premise of 'Westworld' in that our sympathies are meant to be with the robots, the hosts.

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One of the many delights that I found in directing was that you plan so many things so meticulously so that they go smoothly.…

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I think the thing that will endure about Westworld will be the questions it poses.

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The reality is that 'Westworld' is designed so that guests can indulge with impunity their every fantasy - be it light or dark. So…

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We drive a Tesla.

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The great thing about fiction is you can talk about things without being didactic about them, but hopefully forge a connection with people and…

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No matter how long my day job hours were, I always made time to write. I wrote fiction, short stories, and poetry. I never…

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I was actually born a robot, so 'Westworld' is just autobiographical.

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