Kate Bernheimer Quotes
Born: March 12, 1969
Kate Bernheimer, a celebrated author and advocate for the fairy tale form, redefines the boundaries of creativity and art. As the founder of the *Fairy Tale Review* and a professor, she champions the radical power of storytelling, urging artists to find the extraordinary within the ordinary. Her philosophy weaves the surreal with the deeply personal, showing how ancient narratives can illuminate modern life. Bernheimer’s quotes resonate because they speak to the quiet rebellion of the imagination, reminding us that art is not escape, but a necessary, transformative lens for understanding our world.
Kate Bernheimer Quotes (9)
"Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn."
— Kate Bernheimer"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"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"People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages."
— Kate Bernheimer"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"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"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"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"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