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title: "1 Writers Love Quotes By Kate Bernheimer"
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> [It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bernheimer/it-wasn-t-until-i-was-an-adult-reader-that-i-began-to-fathom-the/)

[Kate Bernheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bernheimer/)

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## More by Kate Bernheimer

> [As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bernheimer/as-i-read-more-and-more-fairy-tales-as-an-adult-i-found-massive/)

[Kate Bernheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bernheimer/)

> [In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book was going…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bernheimer/in-the-old-fairy-tales-often-a-moral-was-tacked-on-at-the-end-of-the/)

[Kate Bernheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bernheimer/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bernheimer/doll-less-invisible-friend-less-finally-more-comfortable-in-fear-than/)

[Kate Bernheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bernheimer/)

> [Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as first the age of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bernheimer/well-documented-the-relationship-of-literature-to-myth-in-the-western/)

[Kate Bernheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bernheimer/)

> [When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bernheimer/when-i-wrote-the-eight-fairy-tales-that-appear-in-horse-flower-bird-i/)

[Kate Bernheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bernheimer/)

> [When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bernheimer/when-humans-become-gods-when-our-wings-grow-so-great-as-to-beat-about/)

[Kate Bernheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bernheimer/)

> [“Beer bottles, whiskey bottles, brown glass, green. They fell to the lawn and I'd feel serene. Adam was king to my stilted queen.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bernheimer/beer-bottles-whiskey-bottles-brown-glass-green-they-fell-to-the-lawn/)

[Kate Bernheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bernheimer/)

> [I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural attraction to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bernheimer/i-have-been-writing-fairy-tales-for-as-long-as-i-can-remember-not/)

[Kate Bernheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bernheimer/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bernheimer/i-often-visit-maria-tatar-s-the-grimm-reader-for-a-cold-dose-of/)

[Kate Bernheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bernheimer/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bernheimer/when-i-first-read-anne-frank-s-diary-of-a-young-girl-i-saw-for-the/)

[Kate Bernheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bernheimer/)

> [People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bernheimer/people-tend-to-think-of-fairy-tales-as-archetypal-they-are-also/)

[Kate Bernheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bernheimer/)

> [“The home in which you reside it not forever.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bernheimer/the-home-in-which-you-reside-it-not-forever/)

[Kate Bernheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bernheimer/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bernheimer/the-fact-that-fairy-tales-remain-a-literary-underdog-undervalued-and/)

[Kate Bernheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bernheimer/)

> [Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bernheimer/books-are-no-different-from-goats-they-enjoy-an-afternoon-out-on-the/)

[Kate Bernheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bernheimer/)

> [As scientists have discovered - or perhaps explained is a better word, or perhaps identified - we now live in the age of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bernheimer/as-scientists-have-discovered-or-perhaps-explained-is-a-better-word/)

[Kate Bernheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bernheimer/)

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