Stephenie Meyer makes her first
public appearance in the UK in five years Photo:
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Twilight author Stephenie
Meyer has spoken out about romance and erotica novels, including Fifty Shades of Grey, which
was inspired by the franchise, saying it is "too smutty".
Meyer, who appeared in London last
week for the first time in five years, told Kira Cochrane in the Guardian that
she hadn't read the EL James blockbuster novel, which tracks the
sexual relationship of a young girl and a sadist, saying it wasn't her genre.
Meyer said: "Erotica is not something I read. I don't even read traditional
romance. It's too smutty. There's a reason why my books have a lot of
innocence."
Meyer's Twilight trilogy is about the relationship between Bella Swan, a
teenage girl, and Edward Cullen, her vampire boyfriend. There is very little sex
in the four Young Adult fiction books:
when the couple consummate their marriage it is only written about after the
act.
When Meyer was questioned about the accusations that her Twilight books are
"abstinence porn" and lack any pre-marital sex, she told the paper that she
never decided to put a message into her writing, but that some of it reflects
her own experience.
Meyer is a committed Mormon who married her husband at 21. She said her idea
of true love "is different than what a lot of other people do".
She added: "There's nothing selfish about true love. It's not about what you want. It's about what makes them happy."
She added that Bella's traumatic childbirth in the final novel was based on the difficulty she had bearing her first son
She added: "There's nothing selfish about true love. It's not about what you want. It's about what makes them happy."
She added that Bella's traumatic childbirth in the final novel was based on the difficulty she had bearing her first son
