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You might’ve heard how a couple of weeks ago that Interview with the vampire author Anne Rice said some not so very kind comments about Stephenie Meyer and the Twilight saga in an interview, explaining how she didn’t think it was very creative to have vampires go through high school over and over again. We chose not to publish that interview, since we’re all about the Twilight love and we really try to keep negativity out of this blog, while we respect other people’s opinion (especially Mrs. Rice’s opinion since I like her vampire books too). But then I saw that there was a new video featuring Anne talking about Twilight again, so I watched it to see what she had to say this time and I was very surprised to see that she’s actually clearing up what she meant in the interview stating that she was not bashing Stephenie or Twilight. She just doesn’t like the idea of immortals going through high school when they can do other stuff. I think this was a very classy move on her part, and now that she gets to explain what she meant, I can see that it wasn’t really as negative as the interview made it out to be. Here’s a transcript of what she says, since she makes excellent points:
“I think Stephenie Meyer is a wonderful writer, and I think she’s made millions of people very very happy. You know, any time a writer succeeds on that scale there’s a gift there, and a knack, and I think all writers should celebrate because she’s done wonderfully well. This is good for writing, this is good for books. Now, am I a fan of Twilight? No. Not really, I mean I have read some of them, I’ve sampled some of the prose. It certainly seems competent and easy to read and good, and I can certainly understand why somebody would love it. I did go to the two movies and I saw them. And I thought they were entertaining but I thought they were for really young people. What fascinated me about them was that I thought they were taking a romantic idea that goes back to Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brönte. The idea of a young, sensitive, heroine falling in love with someone who is really potentially dangerous and older, infinitely older, eventhough he looks like he’s the same age, who then becomes a protective figure of her. It’s almost the same story that is in Charlotte’s great classic Jane Eyre. It’s the formula of woman’s romance. The term has been denigrated by a lot of popular writing, but the truth is it’s a very wonderful formula, and it says a lot about what we experience in life and the way we approach the opposite sex, and the danger and the mystery involved in the opposite sex and I saw that in the movies and I thought how incredible, Stephenie Meyer found a way to re-do this in a completely fresh way, so I thought it was kind of enchanthing and I enjoyed all of that. It’s not what I would choose to take to a desert island, it’s not what I read to escape, but I certainly have respect for it. I’m curious about the phenomenon, I’d like to hear from the people about what they think of the books. I’ve been criticized in the press the last few days because I did an interview with someone about the meaning of the vampire in literature and this person asked me in that context what I thought of Twilight and I said in an interview that the idea of an immortal would go to high school was a silly idea, well unfortunately a lot of Mrs. Meyer’s fans were very insulted by that remark. I’ve been accused of bashing her and bashing her books. That’s really not the case. i like her very much and I like what she does. I was trying to talk about the concept of the immortal and how I imagine immortals and what they would do, and to me the concept of an immortal choosing to go to high school instead of Katmandu or Venice or China is ridiculous, it’s kinda silly that someone who as an immortal would go to high school year after year. But this is genius, a stroke of genius on Mrs. Meyer’s part because this is what makes Twilight so wonderful! The vampires are in high school. And Bella is in high school. And so, it works wodnerfully, so I hope that you understand – I’m not bashing her. I’m giving an opinion as someone who also writes about immortals that that’s not the way i would do it and I think that’s a bit silly, but I think it’s worked like magic”.
As someone who also enjoys some of Anne Rice’s books, I’m just very happy to see that she took the time to explain herself. Again, it was such a classy move on her part that she didn’t even have to obligation to do in the first place. She’s entitled to her own opinion. But it’s a relief to see that she’s not one of those arrogant authors (coughStephenKingcough) that just like to throw fellow writers under the bus with rude remarks, dismissively like that.
Mrs. Rice, if you read this, thank you for your opinion and for being so awesome 
. We respect it and we agree with many of the things you expressed. Eventhough we do have to obligation to point out that the Cullens and Edward have done all sorts of things and have been everywhere during their centuries of life, especially Carlisle. Edward and his siblings have even gone to college and have lived separate lives away from each other, like Emmett and Rosalie, or Jasper and Alice. Edward at one point was even a more traditional vampire who drank human blood and killed people. High school students is just the life that Edward and his siblings were living in Twilight (and even Edward is bored with that before he met Bella), when they chose to live as a family again and follow Carlisle’s practice all the way to Forks, since they have their limited places where they can live freely without being exposed as vamps. It’s not like they were going to high school over and over again for hundreds of years. Carlisle just doesn’t want his family or coven to be the sort of vampires that hide out, which is the representation of the rest of the vampires in Twilight, so he encourages them to mix with society and do different things, however ordinary they are.
Leave your comments for Mrs Rice, hopefully she’ll read your thoughts since she’s interested in them.
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