Jordan Belfort
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
She's like, just do it.
So I started writing.
I'm very difficult at first.
My writing was terrible.
And I taught myself to write in jail.
I spent about a year teaching myself how to write by reading another book I love called Bonfire of the Vanities.
Classic, but one of the best authors in the world.
And I used the book like a textbook.
I had yellow underlay.
I kind of cracked Tom Wolfe's strategy for writing.
And that's how I learned to write, in jail.
And then I came, I wrote maybe 50 to 100 pages in jail, but I ripped them up because I didn't think they were good enough.
Came out of jail.
And that's when I started, really, I took out the laptop and started writing.
And, you know, very quickly, long story short, I, you know, an agent read it and he was like, holy crap, and sold it to Random House.
And that was that.
That's how it started.
I mean, every word of every book I write.
I just wrote that book.
I write every word.