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" As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman! "

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" I discovered I was a monotheist... That rules out polytheism. I have also had a problem with authority, which rules out any religion with a priesthood or leader who claims to be God's representative on Earth. "

G. Willow Wilson

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Rules

Religion

" Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals. "

" If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy. "

" In prose, you have a lot more room for digression, for very meaty kinds of dialogues. In graphic novels, you're writing haiku-length dialogue. Your job is to be efficient, to get out of the way of the art. "

" In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand. "

" I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots. "

" I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white. "

" A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism. "

" An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habibi' spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries. "

" We think of divinity as something infinitely big, but it is also infinitely small - the condensation of your breath on your palms, the ridges in your fingertips, the warm space between your shoulder and the shoulder next to you. "

" The Qur'an is in many ways far less concrete than the Bible, relying on the esoteric more often than the apparent. "

G. Willow Wilson

Bible

Far

" I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself. "

" I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque. "

" Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes. "

" That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met. "

" The Qur'an is God's property, not mine. "

" When I need guidance or just to kvetch or to bounce ideas off of people, I go to Gail Simone, who is very much kind of the den mother of all of us who are working comics. "

" For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons. "

G. Willow Wilson

Insomnia

Something

" We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.' "

" It seems like whenever you write about Muslims, people assume that you're writing about the Quran, you are writing about the Prophet Muhammad. There's no sense that Muslims are capable of individualism, that they're capable of making mistakes that are somehow not connected to Islam. "

" It's very difficult to balance different audiences and talk to each one without selling the others short. There is no universal literature - or, if there is, I don't know how to write it. "

" I have younger friends who are in this pinch where they feel they've been counted out before they've had a chance to prove themselves. They've inherited a lot of debt - not just student debt but environmental debt, political debt. They really feel squeezed. "

" In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country. "

" I think that's a huge theme in superhero books across the board: When you have this massive power, how do you use it responsibly? When do you intervene? Those are the big questions. "

" The story of a passionate woman in a stale marriage is as old as Helen of Troy. "

" Superheroes don't often get their powers in one fell swoop. It's like superhero puberty. "

G. Willow Wilson

Superhero

Superheroes

" Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you. "

" In comics, we're all weird together. I can go to a comics convention and not stand out, even though I'm the only woman in a headscarf there, because the guy next to me has a beard and a Sailor Moon costume. "

" Most people know Muslims in their community but don't realize it. "

" In all likelihood, you've been treated by a Muslim doctor or served by a Muslim waiter or worked beside a Muslim computer programmer. Even if you think, 'I don't know any Muslims,' it's probably not true. "