1,728 Quotes by Leigh Bardugo

In our lives, we will all have a moment where we have to learn to hustle.

Let women write horror. Let women write darkness, let women write trauma, without having to carve out their own trauma to justify it.

I want to be really clear about something: I think we kind of fetishize the creative life. We have the vision of what it means to be an author, where you sit in your garret or looking out at your view and you give everything to your art and you commit fully to it. But the reality is that most of us have bills to pay.

I think I'm always interested in the people who aren't generals or master spies or royalty. The people caught in the crossfire.

YA readers are just not rigid about genre. They're all for the mash-up.

After the Grisha Trilogy, I think I was a little burned out on 'chosen one' narratives and I wanted to take a big step away from that.

I don't like writing grand battles and I find it tiresome to research weapons development and military strategy.

To me, beauty is a commodity and that's the way it's treated in my books. It has power, and though that power is limited, some characters understand that better than others.

Ravka has a very particular identity among the countries of the Grishaverse. It's surrounded by enemies. It has spent hundreds of years in near isolation because of the Shadow Fold. It is very much a garrison state so there's a tremendous desire to survive, but there's also a kind of soul-deep shrug that goes along with Ravkans knowing the odds.