"The fact that fairy tales remain a literary……" — 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 time for contemporary fairy tales to be celebrated in a popular, literary collection. Fairy tales hold the secret to reading."
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Kate Bernheimer
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9 Quotes by Kate Bernheimer
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From sentence to sentence, in fairy tales there is no reality that is subordinated to any other. Just as, outside…
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I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to…
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I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of…
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a…
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Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as…
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As scientists have discovered - or perhaps explained is a better word, or perhaps identified - we now live in…
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When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth,…
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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