Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.

After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once.

My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.

As far as 'Twilight' goes, I'm in love with my character. I'm in love with the whole series. I love doing the fan conventions around the world, I love to travel. So wherever it fits in, I'd love to continue doing that for the rest of my life. Just meeting the fans who made everything possible from around the world.

It's never too late in life to have a genuine adventure.

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

I have the best possible life because I believe in the mission I'm making, and I'm making money out of something I enjoy, and I travel.