“When you are 'world building,' people will oftentimes judge how well y...” — Marie Rutkoski Quote

“When you are 'world building,' people will oftentimes judge how well you built your world. They want to know: Is the culture believable? Does it feel like it has a history? I try very hard to pay attention to details.”

“I pretty much always wanted to write a series, because I love reading them.”

“One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches.”

“Maybe people don't see me as believable playing a person of today. I guess I'm just more realistic in a corset and funny hairstyles.”

“Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough.”

“The script is very good because the things that happen in it are very believable to me. It doesn't presuppose that the world has changed very much. You don't have to think that you're in a different world.”