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It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

I did a lot of studying of great writers. I read that Hemingway rewrote 'The Sun Also Rises' 39 times.

I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative.

I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems than novels, I spend a lot of time on the story's larger rhythms, such as sentence and paragraph length, placement of flashbacks and dialogue.

I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half an hour long.

It's difficult to write anything at the moment, as every week there's a seismic shift in world events.

The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down.

In 'Twilight,' you're setting up the world. You're introducing the world, and I was also writing in a vacuum because I didn't know who the actors were going to be. Now you're going to 'New Moon' and 'Eclipse,' and I could write specifically to them in my mind. So it becomes a more comfortable world.

The mark of a writer is to make a story as likely as possible, and I've done my best to deliver authentic atmosphere.

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.