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Stephanie Meyer: Do you think she got the idea for the Twilight series from Heidi Stanton at BYU?

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cjd | 3 years, 1 month ago
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Hi there,

This was all a rumour. An official statement from Stephenie Meyer says:

"I am not being sued. No one has contacted me or my publisher to inform either of us that I'm being sued. I never had a roommate named Heidi. There is no professor in the BYU English department named Dr. Peter Benton (though there is a character on ER by that name). And most of all, I began writing Twilight exactly the way I've told people in countless interviews and events for the past six years: I had a cool dream, I wrote it down, writing it down was really fun, so I kept writing until I had a whole book."

Whether this is a lie or not, no-one knows - however it is very unlikely. Her story was extremely impressive and her ideas are unlikely to have come from someone except her imagination.

So she will not be sued - and the movies will continue with New Moon being released later this year.
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cjd | 3 years, 1 month ago Report

Your welcome. She is quite an impressive writer - but I still think she didn't copy from someone!

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johnsonaaron | 3 years, 1 month ago
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I think that it is entirely possible that she ripped off some of the idea, but the source of the ripping off seems to be a essay or short story, not a book. I think with the amount of addition and writing she did, even if the original concept was stolen, they will have a hard time proving it in court.

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