For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.
I was an excellent student before I left school. But I graduated early so that I could work longer hours on '90210.'
Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20.