Books have been thought of as windows to another world of imagination
I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown.
You live a thousand lives when you read a thousand books.
The thing people don't realize, God bless them, is that my books are supposed to suck.
It's sad when you can't make everyone happy, though. It's impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, 'Maybe I can do it,' but you know you can't. But gosh, if I had to rely on giving people what they wanted, I would have had to write 40 billion different books and even then, I wouldn't get it right.
I just know I'm too much of a wuss for Stephen King's books. I'm way too chicken to read horror.
What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually.
There was a different ending to New Moon originally. It was a much quieter book. It was very much all in Bellas head.
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