Just a Quote

This is something I read recently and I went, “Yes!”  It relates to my previous post “Why I Don’t Like Literature Class.”  Stephenie Meyer, author of The Twilight Saga and The Host: “When I write stories, they’re very specific—it’s about this one situation, and one person who’s not like anybody else in the world.  So that person’s decisions and choices are not a model for anyone else.  And it bothers me when people say: Well, this story is preaching this, or the moral is this.  Because it’s just a story.  It’s about an interesting circumstance and how it resolves.  It’s not intended to mean anything for anybody else’s life….This is a fictional account—I wasn’t trying to teach anyone anything—I just wanted to entertain myself.”