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 Breadcrumbs Quotes Coming Quotes Excited Quotes Fairytale Quotes Fairytales Quotes Immersed Quotes Notice Quotes Plays Quotes Poems Quotes Read Quotes Reader Quotes Reading Quotes Sort Quotes Stories Quotes Techniques Quotes Writer Quotes 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. 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.
Julian Casablancas In most cultures, you can have a kid at 18 and it’s not a big thing. It’s not like, ‘Oh, you’ve got to get a different haircut and move to the suburbs and act, like, 35.’ – Julian Casablancas
Josefina Vazquez Mota I will be a president in a skirt, but I will wear the pants. – Josefina Vazquez Mota
Denise Mina I’d read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy – I thought there must be another approach. – Denise Mina
Robertson Davies I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. – Robertson Davies
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