i get home from work and diana bleaker's career is taking off. people want to read about wall street in 1977, 1987. i get home from work one day. there is a phone call.ro the actor chevy chase, remember him? his dad, ned chase was an editor at simon & schuster, very distinguished book editor. it is him. i found out that you're diana bleaker. he said, i think you should write a book. don't have to do it for me. i love it if you came here. you should write a book. from that moment, that was in september of 1987, i was out the door. i knew that is what i wanted to do. the money didn't matter. what happened next was kind of funny, you don't have to ask -- >> no. i am the potted plant. >> yes. yes. >> the carrot in the school play. >> and so, the what happened next was, i waited until they gave me my bonus at the end of the year, because i didn't wantt to just lose that. u it was a huge pile of money. i then said, i'm leaving to write a book. and they said, what are you going to write about? i said i'm going to write about wall street. they took me in