I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I’m trying to accomplish. G. Willow Wilson Read Quote
I’m not a programmer myself, but I am a very, very picky end user of technology. I like my machines to work they way they’re supposed to, all the time. G. Willow Wilson Read Quote
In many countries in the Middle East – and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring – but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn’t buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn’t understand. G. Willow Wilson Read Quote
Americans look at the Middle East as a source of trauma because of 9/11. At the same time, I could see the fear going on in the Middle East as well – which would be the next country to be invaded or sanctioned? Being around those tensions was traumatic for me. G. Willow Wilson Read Quote
Butterfly Mosque’ came out of the emails I wrote to family and friends back home after moving to Egypt. G. Willow Wilson Read Quote
If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy. G. Willow Wilson Read Quote
In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman’s body, Heaven. G. Willow Wilson Read Quote
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. G. Willow Wilson Read Quote
