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

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.

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

Tanya Saracho Quotes