Stephenie Meyer Says Bella Swan Was Not Based on Herself
Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight Saga has denied the connection between Bella Swan’s character and herself. When asked about it during an interview with Moviefone, Stephenie Meyer said that “Bella and I think completely differently and when I went to write this it wasn’t something I thought about.”
According to Stephenie Meyer, Bella Swan is far more mature than she was at that age. Some of Stephenie’s experiences were added in later on, but Bella started as a character who lived life that was completely different from life Stephenie Meyer knew: “…why would I write something I’ve already experienced?”
Bella Swan is forced to be an adult at all times, whereas Stephenie’s life was really easy as she was sheltered and taken care of at that age. Despite her young age and all the mella happening around her, Bella gets to have her fantasy love affair yet still manages to remain normal – which is something that didn’t happen to Stephenie Meyer either. Then again, this type of love affair hasn’t happened to any of us in real life, regardless of how much we’d love to have a vampire fall in love with us, it ain’t gonna happen. Perhaps in my fantasy world that I create in my daydreams. There I have my luscious fanged lover who strongly desires my blood, but his love for me is stronger and prevails over his instincts. I’d be “unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him”.
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September 6th, 2010 at 12:39 pm
…You’re a pretty good liar Steph. Good on ya!