Kate Bernheimer
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.Collection: Reality
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.Collection: Reading
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.Collection: Wings
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?Collection: Mean
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.Collection: Reading
People tend to think of fairy tales as archetypal. They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.Collection: Thinking