As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my… — Kate Bernheimer Accident Copy Share Image
In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book… — Kate Bernheimer Am 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… — Kate Bernheimer Fear 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… — Kate Bernheimer Age 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… — Kate Bernheimer Also 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… — Kate Bernheimer About 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… — Kate Bernheimer Chess 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… — Kate Bernheimer Abstraction 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… — Kate Bernheimer Book 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… — Kate Bernheimer Admired 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 Age Copy Share Image
The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog-undervalued and undermined-even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that… — Kate Bernheimer Certainty Copy Share Image
Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn. — Kate Bernheimer Afternoon Copy Share Image
As scientists have discovered - or perhaps explained is a better word, or perhaps identified - we now live in the age… — Kate Bernheimer Age Copy Share Image
“We, in our less than divine wisdom but apparently quite divine powers, are now transforming the planet like an Olympian might have… — Kate Bernheimer Divine wisdom Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales represent hundreds of years of stories based on thousands of years of stories told by hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions… — Kate Bernheimer Fairy tale Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was… — Kate Bernheimer Adult 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… — Kate Bernheimer Abandonment Copy Share Image
As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories,… — Kate Bernheimer Books Copy Share Image
“I have been transcribing those poems and considering how lucky we are to live longer than flowers, even if not much happens… — Kate Bernheimer Flower Copy Share Image
With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the… — Kate Bernheimer Alter Copy Share Image
From sentence to sentence, in fairy tales there is no reality that is subordinated to any other. Just as, outside the pages… — Kate Bernheimer Fairy Copy Share Image
I love the idea of the 'vignette,' which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus… — Kate Bernheimer Associated Copy Share Image
