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 Adult Quotes Alcott Quotes Anne Quotes Bernard Quotes Cheever Quotes Fairy Quotes Fathom Quotes Frank Quotes Influence Quotes John Quotes Joy Quotes Louisa Quotes Love Quotes Malamud Quotes Reader Quotes Tales Quotes Williams Quotes Writers Quotes When I first read Anne Frank’s ‘Diary of a Young Girl,’ I saw for the first time that a girl could be a writer and that it had something to do with survival and with ethics and fighting against evil. I admired her, though her diary remained terrifying and mysterious to me. She was a character in a real fairy tale – fairy tales are brutal. I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural attraction to the narrative techniques of fairy tales. My appreciation of them in the traditional stories has deepened, especially of flat and unadorned language, intuitive logic, abstraction, and everyday magic.
Kelsea Ballerini I wouldn’t be an artist if I didn’t have Shania Twain, Faith Hill, Taylor Swift to look up to. – Kelsea Ballerini
Beth Ditto In moments when I question if I should be having kids, I think of all those phone calls from my sister-in-law, in which, 3,000 miles away, I hear my nephews screaming for her attention. I tell her I have to go because I am packing to leave for Europe, and her tone flatlines: ‘That must be nice.’ – Beth Ditto
Andres Iniesta Most things come from inside; they’re intuitive. That’s the way I am. – Andres Iniesta
Christopher AlexanderNature This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it. – Christopher Alexander
Paul Rust Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic – those are sort of three layers of repression. – Paul Rust
Dustin Lance BlackFriendship If you do something with acceptance and kindness, you can create a true friendship. – Dustin Lance Black
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