Interview with Stephenie Meyer

All Things Girl sat down with Stephenie and talked to her about her writing and her books. This was a very well thought out interview. There was new insights into Stephenie and her writing. I’m including a few quotations that are important to me, but please read the whole article.

Reading was really my only training in fiction writing. I never took a class or read a book on how to write. I just absorbed the basics from reading thousands of other people’s stories.

What about your children? What do you read to them….and what do they like to read?

I try to read a little bit of everything to them, hoping that they’ll end up being interested in a lot of different genres. I’ve recently read them Shannon Hale’s Princess Academy, Eva Ibbotson’s The Island of the Aunts, Terry Brooks’s The Sword of Shannara (my first favorite), and right now I’m reading them The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stuart. I’ve also read them Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and The Host. They’re all fans.

For their own reading, they all love Dav Pilkey. My seven-year-old likes Goosebumps and The Magic Treehouse books. My ten-year-old’s favorite is Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney.

Next month, the website will post the second part. I can’t wait!

~ by laureltoosure on May 12, 2008.