When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into. G. Willow Wilson More Quotes by G. Willow Wilson More Quotes From G. Willow Wilson Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man. G. Willow Wilson measure-of-a-manultimatemen 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. G. Willow Wilson hygienehandspast 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. G. Willow Wilson kidsbookthinking Once you discover that the world rewards reckless faith, no lesser world is worth contemplating. G. Willow Wilson recklessrewardsworld you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else. G. Willow Wilson concernonenessspiritual Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful. G. Willow Wilson mediocremeaningfulpeople Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that. G. Willow Wilson darknessstorieschildren Many of us prefer to live in places abandoned by humans. Less work for us. Detroit is very popular. G. Willow Wilson very-populardetroitabandoned Love the life you have been given. And be humbled by it. It is not to be despised. G. Willow Wilson cairohas-beensgiven Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think. G. Willow Wilson thinkyoutolerancepeople 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 somethingowndiversitythinking 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 lookmeyoulight 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 mistakesyouislampeople 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 betteryoufriendswork 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 smallthinkyouspace For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons. G. Willow Wilson somethingmeordinaryinsomnia Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism. G. Willow Wilson monotheismislam When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless. G. Willow Wilson outsideri-amrideegypt In prose, you have a lot more room for digression, for very meaty kinds of dialogues. In graphic novels, you're writing haiku-length dialogue. Your job is to be efficient, to get out of the way of the art. G. Willow Wilson jobyouwayart '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. G. Willow Wilson placepoliticshistoryworld
