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" 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
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" So many people are of mixed heritage; everyone is from somewhere else. "
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" 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. "
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" Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job. "
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" 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?' "
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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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" My faith did not require beauty or belonging - the deeper I went into my practice, the less it required at all. "
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" Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
G. Willow Wilson
Chance
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Interesting
" I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish. "
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Higher
Keep
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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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" 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. "
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People
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" There are very religious people who write comics and who love comics. "
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Love
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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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Want
Place
" Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam. "
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Books
In The Past
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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 great thing about Cairo is the vast majority of women wear some kind of head scarf, but they are also very fashion-conscious. They love bright colors. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons. "
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" 'Lost' makes a lot of sense to me, philosophically. "
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" The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy. "
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" 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. "
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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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