Sometimes, violent details have been eliminated from fairy tales simply because they were deemed too graphic. So one does not, at the end of Disney's version of 'Cinderella,' see the stepsisters' eyes get pecked and pecked by doves, because Disney… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood,… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share
In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book was going… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share
“Doll-less, invisible friend-less, finally more comfortable in fear than in gladness, Astrid began to live in her head. Or rather inside a small tunnel… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share
Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as first the age of… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share
When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression,… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share
When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share
“Beer bottles, whiskey bottles, brown glass, green. They fell to the lawn and I'd feel serene. Adam was king to my stilted queen.” — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share
I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural attraction to… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share
I often visit Maria Tatar's 'The Grimm Reader' for a cold dose of courage. Her translations come from the Brothers Grimm, whose now-famous collection… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share
When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a girl could be a writer… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share
People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages. — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share
The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog-undervalued and undermined-even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that it is… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share
Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn. — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share
As scientists have discovered - or perhaps explained is a better word, or perhaps identified - we now live in the age of the… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share
