Thread: In stephenie meyer's book, why was twilight picked as the title? - Yahoo! Answers

Because that is Edward favorite time of day. I actually do not think that was supposed to be the title, but I don't know. You should go on her website. She has FAQ's. Hope this helps :)

on stephenie meyer's site she said.... Twilight was not the easiest book to title. When I started sending out queries, I called it Forks for lack of a better idea. The first thing my agent advised me was that the title was going to have to change. We played around with a lot of different titles, and nothing seemed to convey the right feel. We brainstormed through emails for about a week. The word twilight was on a list of...

There were a few reasons twilight was chosen as a title. First of all, Stephenie's original title for her book, "Forks", would not have worked because it would not have been as appealing to teenage audiences. I mean, what would the second book have been called? "Sporks?" Also, there are quite a few quotes in the book that relates to the name Twilight. Such as, Edward says once "Twilight....