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" 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. "

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" There is a certain danger in thinking about diversity in its own little box, as something that is somehow separate from 'normal' comic books and comics creators. "

G. Willow Wilson

Own

Danger

Thinking

" When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless. "

G. Willow Wilson

Along

Ride

" I don't think there's something inherently irreligious about comics. "

" When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing. "

" When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful. "

" 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. "

" I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things. "

" I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible. "

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

G. Willow Wilson

Insomnia

Something

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" '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. "

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

" Americans look at the Middle East as a source of trauma because of 9/11. At the same time, I could see the fear going on in the Middle East as well - which would be the next country to be invaded or sanctioned? Being around those tensions was traumatic for me. "

" 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. "

" Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in. "

" The more you put out there, the more you have to resolve. 'Air' is the most literary comic I've written so far, and that poses problems. "

" People love to talk about new and different. They don't always love to buy and read new and different. "

" 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. "

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

G. Willow Wilson

Superhero

Superheroes

" 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. "

" I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written. "

G. Willow Wilson

Back

Issues

" For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam. "

" Being a Muslim in America, I've noticed that there's a ton of crossover between the Muslim community and geekdom. "

" 'Habibi' is a complex and unapologetic work of fantasy - no idle undertaking for readers of any faith or no faith at all, but one well worth the trouble. "

" In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven. "

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