“Ravka has a very particular identity among the countries of the Grisha...” — Leigh Bardugo Quote

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.

I have degenerative bone disease and I walk with a cane. And when I wrote Six of Crows,' I went out on tour, and I met a lot of readers who would say, 'Oh, I don't know why, but I pictured Kaz as being an old man at first.' And I thought, of course you did, because the only people we see with mobility aids in media and in culture are old.

Netflix was like, 'We want all the books!' So, thank you, Eric Heisserer. But I was really nervous at first. It's one thing to hand over the keys to one trilogy, but it's quite another to hand over the keys to 10 years of work.

But let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate.

It's my job as a reporter to not be about the business of making friends or enemies but just be in the tireless pursuit of truth.

Enemies are so stimulating.

As long as I am alive, there will be no rest for the enemies of Islam. I will continue my mission against them.

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

I had rather be plundered by my enemies than by my friends.