Louis Pasteur said, `Chance favors the prepared mind.` If you`re really engaged in the writing, you`ll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.
It`s good to have it over with. I worked on it a long time, and I didn`t know what people were going to think of it. Would people like it? Would they buy it? So far it`s been doing pretty well.
It was an incredible resource. I`d sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the `Talk of the Town` sections.