30 Years of Oprah’s Book Club: The Authors Behind the Stories We Love

[laughs] Thank you.

Wow for us, too.

Yeah.

Thank you.

In my backyard.

Thank you.

Thank you for being here.

So I have to say that it's just a great...

I feel like it's a great privilege to be among people who can use words in the way that you do.

I think it's a gift.

Like, some people can sing, and some people can paint, and some people have this gift of words.

I wonder, do you consider it a gift? [laughs]

I think I had to labor a- at it, so I, I think it wasn't something that just came naturally.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, but I think in the reception and over time, I've become, begun to feel that maybe, yes, I have an affinity for this, and I just didn't know it till later in life.

So when the words come and you've been able to finish the sentence the way you actually want to finish it, does that feel like a gift, or does it feel like you work for it or that it came through you somehow, that you were...

You know, I think when I finally arrive at the finished sentence, it's after many, many iterations.

Yeah.

But there are definitely moments when I think, "This couldn't be from me."

Mm-hmm.

This, this came from some part of me that I don't know, or call it the muse, call it the right brain, it really seems that-

Yeah

...

it didn't come from me-

Really?