G. Willow Wilson

When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful. ”

Butterfly Mosque' came out of the emails I wrote to family and friends back home after moving to Egypt. ”

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

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

My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see. ”

As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman! ”

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. ”

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. ”

Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think. ”

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. ”