In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels.

For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story.

Historically, there is no correlation between what markets do in the first week of the year and what they do in the year as a whole.

I want my books sold on airport bookstalls.

If it were an ordinary year, a traditional year, sort of a simple first year of a president's second term, you would have to say he had a pretty good year.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.