“Stephenie Meyer: Queen of Twilight”: Characters speak to author as autonomous voices in her head, like voices of alternate personalities in multiple personality.

“Just as Edward would later speak to Bella in her head…so did he and Bella speak to the author. ‘All this time, Bella and Edward were, quite literally, voices in my head,’ she wrote on her website. ‘They simply wouldn’t shut up. I’d stay up as late as I could stand trying to get all the stuff in my mind typed out…only to have another conversation start up in my head…’ ” (1, p. 62).

1. Chas Newkey-Burden. Stephenie Meyer: Queen of Twilight. The Biography. London, John Blake, 2010.