1,728 Quotes by Leigh Bardugo

Reading, like writing, was a survival strategy when I was young because these were ways of feeling that my world could be much larger than it actually was. It was inevitable that I would end up writing sci-fi or fantasy.

There's been so much hunger for dystopian in the YA world, I really wasn't sure how Shadow and Bone' would be received.

Making the New York Times' list is the kind of thing you don't even let yourself imagine because it seems so unlikely, so it was incredible to actually see my name there.

I think there's tremendous power in the images we associate with Russian culture and history, these extremes of beauty and brutality that lend themselves to fantasy.

I'm pretty sure Magic Mike' is the best funded gender studies thesis ever so I'm going to have to see that.

Every time you see someone saying a character's too this or too that, those are the things that make a character.

I think heroines would be pretty boring if they were perfect all the time.

The people who live lives that are the most dangerous don't usually come in twirling a mustache rubbing their hands menacingly saying 'I'm an evil genius.' They're people who are charismatic, charming and appealing, who speak to some part of us that makes us want to follow them, that makes us attracted to them.

It was important to me that my heroes not be all good and my villains not be all bad.