Though I'd been taught at our dining room table about the solar system and
knew the earth revolved around the sun, and our moon around us, I never
found out the moon didn't come up in the west until I was a writer and
Herschel Brickell, the literary critic, told me after I misplaced it in a
story. He said valuable words to me about my new profession: "Always be
sure you get your moon in the right part of the sky."
-- Eudora Welty
