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" People love to talk about new and different. They don't always love to buy and read new and different. "
G. Willow Wilson
Always
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" When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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Story
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" Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam. "
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In The Past
Nothing
" The Qur'an is God's property, not mine. "
G. Willow Wilson
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God
Property
" 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. "
G. Willow Wilson
You
Think
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" Superheroes don't often get their powers in one fell swoop. It's like superhero puberty. "
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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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Way
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Positive
" When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into. "
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You
Years
" I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job. "
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Write
Since
" Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think. "
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People
Ability
Only
" 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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Change
Marriage
Love
" Because the traditional mode of dress for Muslim women is so distinct - the headcovering, which is not there for guys - women carry a greater burden of representation than Muslim men do in non-Muslim societies. "
G. Willow Wilson
Women
Muslim
Men
" 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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You
Warm
Breath
" 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. "
G. Willow Wilson
American
Family
School
" 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. "
G. Willow Wilson
Know
Balance
Literature
" 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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Same
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Culture
" Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think. "
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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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Culture
Moment
" 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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Thinking
" 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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Chance
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Interesting
" 'Lost' makes a lot of sense to me, philosophically. "
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Makes
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" 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. "
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Time
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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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Colors
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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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Me
You
Driving
" 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. "
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See
Country
Colorado
" The Qur'an is in many ways far less concrete than the Bible, relying on the esoteric more often than the apparent. "
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