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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. "
G. Willow Wilson
Me
You
Driving
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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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Country
Feel
" I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque. "
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Believe
Spiritual
Mosque
" 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
" I think people, especially in the Muslim community, are rightly cautious any time you hear, 'Oh, there's going to be a Muslim character.' "
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Community
People
" 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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Real Estate
People
Love
" 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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Time
Finding
Powerful
" I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job. "
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Wanted
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Since
" 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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Spring
Time
You
" My faith did not require beauty or belonging - the deeper I went into my practice, the less it required at all. "
G. Willow Wilson
Belonging
Faith
Less
" 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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Think
Culture
Moment
" 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
Write
Story
Religion
" 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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See
Country
Look
" 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
Think
Positive
" The Qur'an is God's property, not mine. "
G. Willow Wilson
Mine
God
Property
" 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. "
G. Willow Wilson
People
Need
Ideas
" The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy. "
G. Willow Wilson
Road
Democracy
Been
" 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
" Choosing a spouse with religion in mind is not always a mistake, especially if your heritage and your faith are important parts of who you are. The trick is, as always, to recognize a good thing when you see it - and never mistake the bad for something more. "
G. Willow Wilson
Religion
Faith
Mistake
" 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. "
G. Willow Wilson
See
Country
Colorado
" 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. "
G. Willow Wilson
Woman
Perfect
Honesty
" For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons. "
G. Willow Wilson
Insomnia
Something
Me
" 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. "
G. Willow Wilson
Creative
Work
Know
" 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. "
G. Willow Wilson
Relationship
Family
You
" I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots. "
G. Willow Wilson
Lived
Born
I Was Born
" It's patently impossible for a Muslim character to represent 'all Muslims.' "
G. Willow Wilson
Represent
Character
Impossible
" 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. "
G. Willow Wilson
Daily
Writing
People
" I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish. "
G. Willow Wilson
Higher
Keep
Myself
" 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. "
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Superpowers
Girl
Awkward
" 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
Myself
Time
Work
" Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam. "
G. Willow Wilson
Books
In The Past
Nothing