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My sisters both are working mothers. I understand that my being an actress as well as being at home isn’t some heroic thing. That doesn’t mean it isn’t confusing or difficult – especially that question of how you find a balance.
I grew up in a home environment where I wasn’t getting esteem for anything I did.
The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.
I listen to the phone-ins on the way home and I know how the fans feel.
I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities, of flying, if I may say, of making my hopes and dreams a reality.
The day I finished ‘Twilight,’ I came home and started bulking up. For ‘New Moon,’ I’m 30 pounds heavier than I was in ‘Twilight.’
By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.
When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud – 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?
In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.
I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.