G. Willow Wilson Quotes
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Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.
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I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque.
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Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork.
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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.
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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.
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I don't think there's something inherently irreligious about comics.
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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.
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Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you.
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My faith did not require beauty or belonging - the deeper I went into my practice, the less it required at all.
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The story of a passionate woman in a stale marriage is as old as Helen of Troy.
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'Air' is what the world looks like: An inconvenient mashup of human politics and divine geography. We leave bits and pieces of ourselves and our history in every place we encounter.
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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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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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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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People love to talk about new and different. They don't always love to buy and read new and different.
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I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots.
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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.
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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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Being a Muslim in America, I've noticed that there's a ton of crossover between the Muslim community and geekdom.
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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.
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you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else.
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The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die if they knew what The Chronicles of Narnia were really about.