Kate Bernheimer Quotes

• 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

  Reality, Pages, Fairy Tale

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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

  Reading, Secret, Underdog

  "My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me". Anthology, September 28, 2010.

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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

  Wings, Answers, Earth

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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

  Mean, Ideas, Vignettes

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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

  Reading, Play, Technique

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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

  Thinking, People, Sensual

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