Though I'd been taught at our dining room table about the solar system and knew the earth revolved around the sun,

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