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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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" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" To me, writing an ongoing series feels like driving a freight train downhill. All you can do is steer and pray. "

G. Willow Wilson

You

Driving

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I do hope the success of 'Ms. Marvel' will open doors for other characters and other creators. "

" '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. "

" 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

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

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

" 'Lost' makes a lot of sense to me, philosophically. "

" 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. "

" That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met. "

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

G. Willow Wilson

Insomnia

Something

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

" 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.' "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The Qur'an is in many ways far less concrete than the Bible, relying on the esoteric more often than the apparent. "

G. Willow Wilson

Bible

Far