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 Image
In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book was going to be marketed to young readers. And the morals don't really suit the stories at all, which makes them super weird - part of why I love the tradition so much. I do play with this,… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
