Latest Leigh Bardugo Quotes from Interviews

• I think the first trick to writing a feminist work is to write plenty of women. That way you get to write characters, instead of worrying about paradigms.

  Leigh Bardugo

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.ew.com

• My stories usually begin with the characters and some elements of how power (personal, political, magical) functions in the world. The rest develops as I write, and research helps a great deal with that. If you're going to write about an agrarian economy, research agrarian economies. If your main character is starving, then you should know what it means for a malnourished body to break down.

  Leigh Bardugo

  Character, Mean, Writing

  "YA masters Rae Carson and Leigh Bardugo talk world building and feminism -- exclusive". Interview with Isabella Biedenharn, ew.com. September 24, 2015.