Stephenie Meyer on Oprah

Stephenie Meyer said she was only going to give one interview surrounding the release of New Moon Movie, and this was on the Oprah show  in the USA on Friday.  Not sure when it will show in SA, but will let you know when I know.   You know you’ve made it when your exclusive interview is on Oprah Here is a part of the interview -

Before the night of the dream, Stephenie says she had lost herself a little in the work of motherhood. “I was really burned out. I really had gotten into that zombie mom way of doing things where I wasn’t Stephenie anymore,” she says. “[Writing Twilight] was a release. That was the dam bursting. I’d been bottling up who I was for so long, I needed an expression.”

Though she’d been married for 15 years, Stephenie says she didn’t tell her husband at first about her new passion. “My husband though I’d gone crazy. I’d barely spoken to him because I had all these things going on in my head, and I wasn’t telling him about this weird vampire obsession because I knew he’d freak out and think I’d lost my mind,” she says.

At first, Stephenie was documenting her dream only to make sure she would remember it, she says. “The dream was just something I was so interested in, and it was so different from what my everyday was at the time,” she says. “I just wanted to remember it so badly. That’s why I started writing it down—not because I thought this would be a great story for a novel.”

Now that Twilight is a huge success, it’s hard to imagine any literary agent rejecting it. But Stephenie says she’d submitted it to plenty of people before she was signed. “I got nine rejections, five no answers and then one ‘I’d like to read more,’” she says.

Stephenie says it was her sister who really pushed her to keep submitting it to more agents. “She was the only one in the world who knew what I was doing,” she says.

These days, the Twilightseries is more than just a literary hit. The first two movies have also created a stir and catapulted three young stars into the limelight. British actor Robert Pattinson, who plays the lead vampire Edward Cullen, is now an international heartthrob. “I knew that the problem was going to be Edward, because he’s the perfect vampire,” Stephenie says. “How do you cast that from your pool of human actors?”

When producers found Robert, Stephenie says it was a perfect fit. “He’s got something about him. He doesn’t look like everybody else. There’s something unusual,” she says. “There are moments where he looks exactly like he did in my head.”

Stephenie says casting Bella, the book’s protagonist, was a bit easier. “There’s plenty of people who look like the girl next door,” she says. “We were really lucky [to cast] Kirsten Stewart, who is a phenomenal actress. I didn’t know if we were going to get that caliber.”

Though Twi-hards, as fans are called, know most everything about the series, Stephenie says there is one secret she’s never revealed before. “There was a different ending to New Moon originally,” she says. “It was a much quieter book. It was very much all in Bella’s head.”

Stephenie says fans have her mother to thank for New Moon’s current dramatic ending. “My mom’s like: ‘You know, Stephenie, maybe a little more action at the end would be a good idea. Maybe you need that,’” Stephenie says. “And she was right, as usual.”

Her mother’s suggestion prompted Stephenie to introduce the Volturi, an all-powerful coven of vampires living in Italy, sooner than she’d planned. “That’s kind of my favorite part now, and it’s there because my mom told me it would be better that way.”

To view the video where Stephenie talks about Book 5, click here.  Lets keep our fingers crossed that there is another book!!

To view the full interview click here