Twilight Author Stephenie Meyer Dreams Vampire

It all started June 2, 2003. I know the exact date because I had all these other things on my calendar that I had to do that day.

I had this really great dream, and it was odd because it was coherent, because it was a really complicated conversation, and because I don’t ever dream about vampires. You don’t get a dream like that twice, you know?

I woke up and I just was wrapped up in this idea of what was going to happen next. Was he going to kill her or were they going to be together? It was 50/50 at that point. I wrote it down because there were a lot of nuances to the conversation I didn’t want to forget, and I knew they would go. I forget everything.

Once I got started, within that day I was completely hooked on writing, and this was something brand new to me. I had no ambitions for a writing career. I had a career and I was really busy with it; I had three little boys, and there was no time to do something else.

Then, writing...it was like I just found it, you know? Like finding your favorite flavor of ice cream, all of a sudden there it is. So this is what I should have been doing for the last 30 years. What was I thinking? I had to just keep going with it.

Making The Movie

When we started out I actually sold the rights to a different company. I got a look at a script that was objectively a decent vampire movie that had nothing at all to do with Twilight. You could have produced that movie and never given me any credit. That was kind of a horrifying experience.