Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

The big, radical thing that I'm trying to do is to portray Latinas as complex human beings.

— Tanya Saracho

I always have something big enough to say as a playwright. It's storytelling.

— Tanya Saracho

I never wanted to be married. That was never a thing for me.

— Tanya Saracho

I would like to do more millennial, Latina, complicated stories.

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

I know people seek me out to be their mentor, and I've chosen a few people I'm really invested in and nurturing…

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

Write about your experiences! When I moved to L.A., I didn't have any friends, and the office janitor was the person who…

— Tanya Saracho

I have 16 plays, and we don't ever do subtitles. You can't do subtitles in the theater, so I was like, 'I'm…

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

At Shondaland, six out of nine writers were of color - not Latinx, but I was like, 'Wait, I can do that…

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

I am not a quiet person.

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

I adore 'Broad City,' but the one Latino is queer for jokes. You see queerness of Latinos in this emasculated with an…

— Tanya Saracho

When you work in a writers room for a showrunner, you serve that story, and you serve that showrunner. I don't think…

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

I feel like progress will be made in the landscape of Latino influence when we get to tell those murky, real, close-to-life…

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho