180 Quotes by G. Willow Wilson

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

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

Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.

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.

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.

I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.

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

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

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