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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…You’re a pretty good liar Steph. Good on ya!
What a load of tripe. Ms Swan is not “mature” at all, she’s the most clingy, needy, self-absorbed excuse for a character to tarnish the world of literature. Really, Meyer is only insulting herself by saying Bella is more mature than her.
Since when was Bella “forced to be an adult”? Just because she plays housewife when living with her dad? Because both her parents are unfairly portrayed as incompetent to make her own weak character look better? Please…
For the record, having a vampire falling in love with you would NEVER be desirable, I can’t believe people actually say that, fiction or no fiction. Vampires are DEAD. Unless you’re necrophiliac, just WHAT is the appeal of a dead person?? Seriously, it’s like Meyer expects us all to agree with her that vampires are better than humans, period. All this series does is try to force down readers’ throats that the “vampires” are so much better than humans in every single way – it really gets tedious after half a page or so.
I hope someone has asked Meyer about why Bella looks exactly like her, down to the eyebrows and widow’s peak – would she admit it THEN, or would she put it off with “I had my own image of Bella, brunette is a common hair color anyway, I really just based her off the average girl so readers could relate to her”… again, PLEASE. What a complete insult to the intelligence of readers in general.
The physical description you gave says otherwise Steph
Only just read this. Bella, more mature than she was at that age?? Dear lord, she must have burnt down her school or something. Bella spends the entirety of New Moon being suicidal, and stressing her utter worthlessness without her vampiric lover’s presence. The fact she even “fell in love” with the “sparkly golden topaz eyes/white glistening chest/bronze hair/solid gold poop” – Aah! None of it makes sense! Twelve year old’s write better self-inserts! At least their ones occasionally have backbones!