Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
With 'Twilight ' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza ' we had an eight episode Dutch series that just for the pilot alone I condensed three episodes. So there's a lot of filling in and a ton of invention that has to happen to fill out eight episodes.
All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.