And that, of course, is the secret. You see, having time to do something, without the financial worries, enables one to be creative.

Wilbur Smith sat home and wrote while his wife worked. J K Rowling got a $17,000 grant from some Scottish literary organisation and sat in her brother's coffee shop in London and wrote all day.

In order to make money, one has to have resources. Time is a resource. He didn't have to worry about income. He had time to figure it out.

In any story where there is an upwardly mobile rise, there are factors that people don't consider. They are there. Without those factors, it wouldn't have been possible.