Quotes by Kate Bernheimer - Page 1

Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
Kate Bernheimer / Writer
Afternoon
Different
Enjoy
Goats
Books
Lawn
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When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.
Kate Bernheimer / Writer
Answers
Earth
Edges
Humans
Wings
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People tend to think of fairy tales as archetypal. They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.
Kate Bernheimer / Writer
People
Sensual
Thinking
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People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.
Kate Bernheimer / Writer
Fairy
Sensual
Tales
Ages
Archetypal
Extremely
Fairy Tales
Tend
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I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.
Kate Bernheimer / Writer
Humans
Saddest
Pink
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From sentence to sentence, in fairy tales there is no reality that is subordinated to any other. Just as, outside the pages there is no reality.
Kate Bernheimer / Writer
Fairy Tale
Pages
Reality
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I love the idea of the vignette, which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?
Kate Bernheimer / Writer
Ideas
Mean
Vignettes
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I love the idea of the 'vignette,' which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?
Kate Bernheimer / Writer
Emily
Feminine
Associated
Decorative
Illustrative
Maligned
Thus
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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 Frank to Joy Williams.
Kate Bernheimer / Writer
Fairy
Fathom
Frank
Reader
Tales
Anne
Bernard
Fairy Tales
Williams
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As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I cant help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so Im very excited when I notice that.
Kate Bernheimer / Writer
Play
Reading
Technique
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As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I'm very excited when I notice that.
Kate Bernheimer / Writer
Fairytale
Reader
Immersed
Notice
Techniques
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Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as first the age of gods fell away before the notion of a single god, and then, for many people, that single god slipped away, too.
Kate Bernheimer / Writer
Myth
Notion
Western
Western World
Documented
Millennia
Undergone
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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 narrative structure and motifs.
Kate Bernheimer / Writer
Collusion
Fairy
Massive
Narrative
Sexuality
Structure
Subjects
Tales
Transformation
Accident
Drawn
Fairy Tales
More And More
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
Kate Bernheimer / Writer
Artistic Expression
Bird
Childlike
Eight
Fairy
Flower
Horse
Innocent
Vintage
Picture
Appear
Fairy Tales
Haunted
New Kind
Picture Book
Tale
Toward
Tried
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With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.
Kate Bernheimer / Writer
Ocean
Busy
Climate Change
Effects
Extinction
Mass
Species
Alter
Brains
Sixth
Period
Forces
Nature Change Time
Short Period
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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.
Kate Bernheimer / Writer
Reading
Secret
Underdog
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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 of 'Kinder- und Hausmarchen' ('Children's and Household Tales') was first published in 1812. The book was not intended for young readers.
Kate Bernheimer / Writer
Cold
Dose
Reader
Tales
Translations
Collection
Brothers
Intended
Maria
Published
Visit
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Sometimes, violent details have been eliminated from fairy tales simply because they were deemed too graphic. So one does not, at the end of Disney's version of 'Cinderella,' see the stepsisters' eyes get pecked and pecked by doves, because Disney wanted to market the story for wholesome family viewing.
Kate Bernheimer / Writer
Fairy
Graphic
Tales
Version
Wholesome
Deemed
Disney
Doves
Eliminated
Fairy Tales
Viewing
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I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural attraction to the narrative techniques of fairy tales. My appreciation of them in the traditional stories has deepened, especially of flat and unadorned language, intuitive logic, abstraction, and everyday magic.
Kate Bernheimer / Writer
Appreciation
Abstraction
Attraction
Everyday
Fairy
Intuitive
Logic
Magic
Narrative
Tales
Traditional
Long Remember I Can
Fairy Tales
Techniques
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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 often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
Kate Bernheimer / Writer
Abandonment
Fairy
Initiation
Range
Recurring
Tales
Transformation
Desires
Elemental
Fairy Tales
Fears
Sexual
Plots
Revolve
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As scientists have discovered - or perhaps explained is a better word, or perhaps identified - we now live in the age of the Anthropocene. The geologic age of the Anthropocene. Those high priests of material evidence have given us our own epoch like the Holocene, the Pleistocene! Apparently we now, it seems, have superhuman powers.
Kate Bernheimer / Writer
Epoch
Priests
Superhuman
Apparently
Explained
Identified
Powers
Scientists
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In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book was going to be marketed to young readers. And the morals don't really suit the stories at all, which makes them super weird - part of why I love the tradition so much. I do play with this, though I am more concerned with ethics than morals.
Kate Bernheimer / Writer
Ethics
Fairy
Tales
Love I Am Weird
Fairy Tales
Morals
Readers
Suit
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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 and that it had something to do with survival and with ethics and fighting against evil. I admired her, though her diary remained terrifying and mysterious to me. She was a character in a real fairy tale - fairy tales are brutal.
Kate Bernheimer / Writer
Brutal
Ethics
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Frank
Mysterious
Survival
Time Character Me
Admired
Anne
Diary
Terrifying
Remained
Tale
Young Girl
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