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" 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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" 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. "

G. Willow Wilson

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" As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman! "

" The first comic I ever read was an 'X-Men' themed anti-smoking PSA they gave out in health class when I was about 10. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

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

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

" 'Habibi' is a complex and unapologetic work of fantasy - no idle undertaking for readers of any faith or no faith at all, but one well worth the trouble. "

" Superheroes don't often get their powers in one fell swoop. It's like superhero puberty. "

G. Willow Wilson

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

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

G. Willow Wilson

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

" 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. "

" Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots. "

" I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible. "

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

" Being a Muslim in America, I've noticed that there's a ton of crossover between the Muslim community and geekdom. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" In Arab Islamic society, it is traditionally taboo to criticize the lifestyle or personal philosophy of any practicing Muslim. "

" The more you put out there, the more you have to resolve. 'Air' is the most literary comic I've written so far, and that poses problems. "

" 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. "

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

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