Fear Quote 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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.”

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Kate Bernheimer

People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.

— Kate Bernheimer

“The home in which you reside it not forever.”

— 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…

— Kate Bernheimer