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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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" I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda. "

G. Willow Wilson

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork. "

" I think people, especially in the Muslim community, are rightly cautious any time you hear, 'Oh, there's going to be a Muslim character.' "

" 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. "

" Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism. "

G. Willow Wilson

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

G. Willow Wilson

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

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

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

" There are very religious people who write comics and who love comics. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time. "

G. Willow Wilson

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" '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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" It's patently impossible for a Muslim character to represent 'all Muslims.' "

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

" 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. "