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I tend to edit some as I go - partly because one of the reasons I don't outline much is that I don't know what the next scene will be until I've actually written the previous scene.

It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore.

It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.

I've cut myself out... I've cut scenes out that I was in and that's when you realize that you've got to make the best movie you can.

I've rewritten other films and watched my writing be mutilated, but luckily, it's been mutilated anonymously.

I really enjoy the consolation when I'm having to cut loose stuff I love, of saying 'Well, at least it will make it onto DVD.' There's a couple of scenes which I liked very much, but couldn't fit them into the film that are on there.

I had a bunch of other projects that I worked really hard on after 'Twilight,' and the magic just didn't hit.

I'm not patient at all. I avoid writer's block by writing. I power through with a bad version, so I can move on, and usually once I've gotten to the next scene, I'll discover what was missing from the bad version scene. Then I can easily rewrite it to get back on the right path.

I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.