What belief about work, family, money, or success took you longest to recognise as wrong?

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people, and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

I always felt like I could blow it and nothing would never happen until this happened.

I always thought I was able and competent all the while I was rearing them.

I don't think I really understood that you could choose writing as a profession for many years later. It wasn't really until I was 17, when I read Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison and saw, 'Oh, someone like me, a black woman, can do this ...

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.