“Thankfully, the farmers understand my request that the children not be allowed to peer through the windows at me. It would be alarming for them to see me with their dolls, to see me using the knife on their faces. There are some things children never should see.” ChildrenFairy TalesDollsLucy Gold Book:The Complete Tales of Lucy Gold Source: The Complete Tales of Lucy Gold
“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.” PlayHelpingStoriesReadingReaderExcitedTechniqueCantFairytale Author: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 but us.” HumansEarthGrowsAnswersBeatsWingsEdges Author:Kate Bernheimer
“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?” MeanIdeasFeminineEmilyVignettes Author:Kate Bernheimer
“People tend to think of fairy tales as archetypal. They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.” PeopleThinkingWellsAgeTalesSensualFairyFairy TaleTranslate Author: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.” RealityPagesSentencesTalesFairyFairy Tale Author: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.” FactsStoriesReadingSecretShapesTalesContemporaryCertaintyFairyCollectionsFairy TaleUnderdogUndervalued Author:Kate Bernheimer
