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
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. – G. Willow Wilson
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. – G. Willow Wilson
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. – G. Willow Wilson
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
I think lot of Muslims have gotten fatigued by the way Muslim characters, even ‘positive’ ones, are portrayed in the media. – G. Willow Wilson
‘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. – G. Willow Wilson
Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you’re able to think. – G. Willow Wilson
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
In comics, we’re all weird together. I can go to a comics convention and not stand out, even though I’m the only woman in a headscarf there, because the guy next to me has a beard and a Sailor Moon costume. – G. Willow Wilson
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
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
In Arab Islamic society, it is traditionally taboo to criticize the lifestyle or personal philosophy of any practicing Muslim. – G. Willow Wilson
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. – G. Willow Wilson
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
It took me a long time to square with the fact that none of my experiences are typical – I’m not a typical American, but I’m also not a typical Muslim. – G. Willow Wilson
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?’ – G. Willow Wilson
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
It seems like whenever you write about Muslims, people assume that you’re writing about the Quran, you are writing about the Prophet Muhammad. There’s no sense that Muslims are capable of individualism, that they’re capable of making mistakes that are somehow not connected to Islam. – G. Willow Wilson
When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride – I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless. – G. Willow Wilson
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. – G. Willow Wilson
I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots. – G. Willow Wilson
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. – G. Willow Wilson
I do hope the success of ‘Ms. Marvel’ will open doors for other characters and other creators. – G. Willow Wilson
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
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
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. – G. Willow Wilson