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" 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

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" 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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" 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. "

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" In Arab Islamic society, it is traditionally taboo to criticize the lifestyle or personal philosophy of any practicing Muslim. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelming because of the traditional segregation of men and women in many public and private settings. "

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" Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" Sometimes, by using the most over-the-top, ridiculous plot device you can imagine, you get some interesting little conflicts and cool things that you might not otherwise have a chance to explore. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy. "

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" There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture. "

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" The 'Ms. Marvel' mantle has passed to 'Kamala Khan,' a high school student from Jersey City who struggles to reconcile being an American teenager with the conservative customs of her Pakistani Muslim family. "

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" The first comic I ever read was an 'X-Men' themed anti-smoking PSA they gave out in health class when I was about 10. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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" The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago. "

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

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" Leaving your country at a tender age really rearranges the way you perceive the world. So I feel marginally attached to many places rather than deeply attached to any one place. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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" It took me a long time to square with the fact that none of my experiences are typical - I'm not a typical American, but I'm also not a typical Muslim. "

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" I think lot of Muslims have gotten fatigued by the way Muslim characters, even 'positive' ones, are portrayed in the media. "

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" 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. "

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