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.’ G. Willow Wilson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
To me, writing an ongoing series feels like driving a freight train downhill. All you can do is steer and pray. G. Willow Wilson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. G. Willow Wilson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
