“There’s two kinds of floods of mail I get. One, there’s the floods of mail from people accusing me of stealing, and they list about 30 things from ‘Twilight.’ I usually write back just one sentence: ‘Look at the copyright date.’ Actually, I get a tremendous amount of apologies back. A lot of people have the guts to write back and say, ‘Oh, my God, I’m so sorry.

If Smith unabashedly favors the bad brother in her books, she’s also becoming a big fan of him on the small screen too. “I especially like Damon; Ian Somerhalder does very well,” she said. “But I really, really like the Elena that they picked, Nina Dobrev. Even though she’s brunette, and not blond, which took some getting used to for me, she’s a great actress. And I love the Stefan that they’ve picked. I just think that they’ve done a terrific job of interpreting it for TV.”

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