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" For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons. "
G. Willow Wilson
Insomnia
Something
Me
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" 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. "
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Change
Marriage
Love
" In Arab Islamic society, it is traditionally taboo to criticize the lifestyle or personal philosophy of any practicing Muslim. "
G. Willow Wilson
Society
Philosophy
Personal
" I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job. "
G. Willow Wilson
Wanted
Write
Since
" 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. "
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Creative
Work
Know
" To me, writing an ongoing series feels like driving a freight train downhill. All you can do is steer and pray. "
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Me
You
Driving
" 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. "
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You
Doctor
Know
" 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. "
G. Willow Wilson
Your
How
Sense
" Out-marriage is an issue religious groups have been wrestling with for some time. Of course men and women fall in love. Of course it's not always convenient to their respective cultural and spiritual norms. "
G. Willow Wilson
Love
Women
Fall
" I think lot of Muslims have gotten fatigued by the way Muslim characters, even 'positive' ones, are portrayed in the media. "
G. Willow Wilson
Way
Think
Positive
" 'Air' is very placeless - it's set in many different countries, and much of the story is about going places rather than being places. 'Air' is about travelers, and I'm a chronic traveler. "
G. Willow Wilson
Air
Places
Going
" To me, a staircase looks like a series of dark and light horizontal stripes, which is exactly how you'd draw a staircase. So I know how the image is going to look on the page. "
G. Willow Wilson
Dark
Know
Light
" Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you. "
G. Willow Wilson
Just
Working
Ordinary
" I don't want to compare myself to somebody like Fitzgerald or Hemingway, but I feel like, for some writers, going to a certain city, a certain place, is what kickstarts your imaginative process. "
G. Willow Wilson
Myself
Want
Place
" When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into. "
G. Willow Wilson
Write
You
Years
" Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes. "
G. Willow Wilson
Eyes
Book
Nothing
" What we wanted to do was tell a story that felt relatable to anyone who's been a teenager. We haven't all been a second-generation Pakistani-American girl with superpowers, but we've all been 16 and awkward. "
G. Willow Wilson
Superpowers
Girl
Awkward
" It's patently impossible for a Muslim character to represent 'all Muslims.' "
G. Willow Wilson
Represent
Character
Impossible
" I don't think there's something inherently irreligious about comics. "
G. Willow Wilson
Think
Comics
Something
" Most people know Muslims in their community but don't realize it. "
G. Willow Wilson
Know
Most
People
" 'Lost' makes a lot of sense to me, philosophically. "
G. Willow Wilson
Sense
Makes
Lost
" People love to talk about new and different. They don't always love to buy and read new and different. "
G. Willow Wilson
Always
Talk
People
" I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?' "
G. Willow Wilson
Same
Believe
Culture
" When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless. "
G. Willow Wilson
Along
Am
Ride
" 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. "
G. Willow Wilson
Real Estate
People
Love
" I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things. "
G. Willow Wilson
Islam
Two
Think
" I'm not a programmer myself, but I am a very, very picky end user of technology. I like my machines to work they way they're supposed to, all the time. "
G. Willow Wilson
Myself
Time
Work
" I think all these pop cultural media often reflect conversations we're having in the real world at that moment in time. I think one of the big conversations we're having as a culture is we thought we'd solved sexism and racism, and we're realizing more and more that we haven't. "
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Think
Culture
Moment
" 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. "
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Way
You
Writing
" My faith did not require beauty or belonging - the deeper I went into my practice, the less it required at all. "
G. Willow Wilson
Belonging
Faith
Less
" I do hope the success of 'Ms. Marvel' will open doors for other characters and other creators. "
G. Willow Wilson
Doors
Other
Success