sentences:  Meyer comments that her vampire mythology differs from that of other authors because she wasn't informed about the canon vampires, saying, It wasn't until I knew that "Twilight" would be published that I began to think about whether my vampires were too much the same or too much different from the others.Of course, I was far too invested in my characters at that point to be making changes... so I didn't cut out fangs and coffins and so forth as a way to distinguish my vampires; that's just how they came to me.According to the author, her books are "about life, not death" and "love, not lust".