As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots… — 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… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
“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
