Stephenie Meyer on Sunday Times

Stephenie Meyer had a vivid and strangely coherent dream in 2003. And that dream became the inspiration for her 2006 debut novel Twilight or, as the author revealed, Chapter 13 of the book.
Her vampire-themed book series, which is targeted at teenage girls, has also spawned New Moon (2006), Eclipse (2007) and Breaking Dawn (2008), with more than 25 million copies in global sales.
So why was she, a Mormon mother of three young sons and wife of an accountant, having an unholy dream about a vampire falling in love with a human girl?
“I’ve been trying to figure that out for the past 5 ½ years,” she said with a laugh during a round-table interview last month at the Beverly Wilshire in Los Angeles.
She was in the city promoting director Catherine Hardwicke’s film adaptation of Twilight. The movie is now showing in cinemas.
“Maybe it was a commercial or someone talking about it, because vampires were so not a part of my life before that,” added Meyer, who wore a dark brown dress over her plump physique, complete with a long necklace with a black pearl.
When a journalist commented that she is very fair for someone living in Arizona, she replied: “Why do you think I wrote books about albinos?”
The 34-year old author was referring to her pale vampire characters who are beautiful, well-dressed and forever young. Their skin sparkles in the sun, which is why they live in the rainy town of Forks in Washington State.
“I don’t like to be scared,” she confessed. “So I wrote about vampires who are beautiful and have eternal youth, rather than monsters that are drooling and rotting.”
In the film, the lead vampire character Edward is played by Robert Pattinson, while the mortal Bella is played by Kristen Stewart – casting choices that Meyer is pleased with.
“I’m very protective of my characters,” she said. “But I’ve learnt to let go because there’s no way you can take a book this long and make a movie without any changes.
“Besides, you’re not going to find real vampires to play the parts.”
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Meyer grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, in a large family with five siblings. An English degree holder of Bringham Young University, she counts Jane Austen, William Shakespeare and L.M. Montgomery among her influences.
Aside from the Twilight series, she has penned an adult sci-fi novel, The Host (2008). She has also written Midnight Sun, which retells the events of Twilight from Edward’s perspective (instead of Bella’s), but an online reak of a rough draft led to her decision to delay the project indefinitely.
She still finds it funny that many people thought of Bella as an anti-feminist character who is often in need of saving.
“It’s never about her being a girl but how she was a mortal surrounded by superheroes,” she explained.
“I don’t see her as passive, but someone with enormous will power who keeps up and survives.”
As a writer, Meyer considers herself fortunate because it was “incredibly easy” for her to get published – from transforming her dream into a novel within three months to getting an agent and signing an initial three-book deal.
“My expectation was that, maybe, if I’m really lucky, one of my books would get to a shelf in a bookstore somewhere,” she said.
“That would have been enough for me.”

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