1,728 Quotes by Leigh Bardugo

I started reading fantasy and science fiction and writing fantasy and science fiction when I was - when I started junior high school.

There were times in the writing of Ninth House' where I thought, have I gone too far?'

And I desperately needed books that would take me out of my environment and show me a world where being smart and brave and prepared was more important than being cute or cheerful or knowing the right thing to say. And that's what science fiction and fantasy gave me.

Fantasy novels give this illusion that the stakes are as high as they feel when you're a teenager. But I think for teenagers they actually are that high. I think you really are dealing in a world of tremendous cruelty and intensity, and YA gives truth to that.

It is a challenge to write in the real world once you've had the advantage of being able to create your own world.

If you're a particular kind of kid who hasn't found your tribe, which most of us don't until later, that's what books become.

I'm always the kid who is going to be finding out if there is a cemetery or an abandoned amusement park that I can go visit as opposed to the beach, so it wasn't too much of a stretch to get me to the world of Ninth House.'

Third books are a scary thing. They come with the weight of so much expectation, and I've been keenly aware of that.

When people write about secret societies, there is a desire to demystify them. I wanted to hyper-mystify them.