Top 101 Quotes & Sayings by G. Willow Wilson - Page 2

'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.

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.

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.

Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.

My faith did not require beauty or belonging - the deeper I went into my practice, the less it required at all.

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

'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.

The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelming because of the traditional segregation of men and women in many public and private settings.

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.

'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart.

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

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

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 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.

It's very difficult to balance different audiences and talk to each one without selling the others short. There is no universal literature - or, if there is, I don't know how to write it.

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.

I don't think there's something inherently irreligious about comics.

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

There are very religious people who write comics and who love comics.

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.'

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.

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.

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

The Qur'an is in many ways far less concrete than the Bible, relying on the esoteric more often than the apparent.

Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.

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.

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

For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.

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.

Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.

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

The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.

Love the life you have been given. And be humbled by it. It is not to be despised.

Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.

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.

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

you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else.

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

I have had much experience with the unclean and uncivilized in the recent past. Shall I tell you what I discovered? I am not the state of my feet. I am not the dirt on my hands or the hygiene of my private parts. If I were these things, I would not have been at liberty to pray at any time since my arrest. But I did pray, because I am not these things. In the end, I am not even myself. I am a string of bones speaking the word God.

Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man.

Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.