Stephenie Meyer Quotes

I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown.

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• It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

  

  Stephenie Meyer
  • Important
  • Free
  • Acting

• Maybe it's because I'm a little naive, but I do like to think that there aren't really very many truly bad people in the world. I think that everybody has their reasons for what they do, and if you really look through their eyes, you could probably understand them.

  

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  • Understand
  • Naive
  • Bad People

• What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually.

  

  Stephenie Meyer
  • Head
  • Twilight
  • Publishing

• Vampirism, for me, was a way to live in fantasy and have superpowers, but not just in a really perfect, happy, everything is great way. It's superpowers with a cost. It's having to be the villain, and what do you do about that.

  

  Stephenie Meyer
  • Fantasy
  • Superpowers
  • Vampirism

• I don't want to be a vampire. A lot of other people do and I think it's that dual nature - we have, you know, terrifying/intriguing.

  

  Stephenie Meyer
  • Nature
  • Vampire
  • Terrifying

• I tried, after I wrote 'Twilight,' to read 'The Historian,' because it was the big thing that summer. But I can't read other people's vampires. If it's too close, I get upset; if it's too far away, I get upset. It just makes me very neurotic.

  

  Stephenie Meyer
  • Read
  • Neurotic
  • Vampires

• That actually is one of my huge challenges right now because I write best at night, no question. I can focus. You know you're not getting any phone calls, I can shut everything down, and I'm just more creative at night.

  

  Stephenie Meyer
  • Night
  • Focus
  • Creative

• All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters. They are real to me while I'm writing them, and I think that makes them real to the readers as well.

  

  Stephenie Meyer
  • Real
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  • Characters

• It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.

  

  Stephenie Meyer
  • Stories
  • New
  • Author

• I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren't very many bad guys in my novels.

  

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  • Write
  • Characters
  • Exception

• I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown.

  

  Stephenie Meyer
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Publishing