Quotes from G. Willow Wilson

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

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.

Most people know Muslims in their community but don't realize it.

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.

'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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Many of us prefer to live in places abandoned by humans. Less work for us. Detroit is very popular.

I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque.

To me, a staircase looks like a series of dark and light horizontal stripes, which is exactly how you'd draw a staircase. So I know how the image is going to look on the page.

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

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.

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.

Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork.

Once you discover that the world rewards reckless faith, no lesser world is worth contemplating.

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.