peter bernstein, my book agent. brian: peter bernstein. manal: yes, yes. i met his dad first, robert bernstein. he ran the human rights watch and the first thing he told me, "you should write a book." his father, my agent's father. brian: robert bernstein. manal: he said, "you should write a book." i told him, "you remember, you planted that seed that i should write a book and i just said, who would read my story, really?" brian: you gave credit to lyric winik, who is she? manal: i had five different collaborators. the -- your -- to be successful in writing a book, you need two things. the first one, finding the right agent who believes in you who would be always there, which i was very blessed to have peter and amy bernstein as my agents and finding the right collaborator. i had very disappointing experiences with the previous collaborators and i had to sit down and i told peter, "peter, i am going to write the book. i am done with collaborators. i do interviews for six months and they disappear. they don't give me a single word." because all my life, i ha