Budding Bestselling Author Gifts

"Your book stinks—we want to publish it."

I should be a writer when I grow up...

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

"Abstract Expressionism is definitely right for me at this stage of my career."

'I love your playing....especially when you stop!'

"I'll bet all of Albert Einstein's teachers felt like idiots for giving him bad grades too."

Child drawing fish from life by putting his head in a pond.

'Can you tell me what I've written? I can't read!'

"I know its hard to believe right now, Lawrence, but some day you'll thank me for asking you to punctuate your sentences correctly."

Timmy has a great future in nano-technology.

'With my parents out of the house, I can finally start my long awaited mural project.'

" 'How I Spent My Summer Vacation,' a treatment by Todd Mozelle, Grade Three."

"Someday you'll see my work in the employee break room at the Met."

'Who I played in Summer Stock.'

'We're pushing our do-it-yourself kit, today, sir - a ream of paper and a half-dozen pencils.'

'I have a feeling one day when he grows up he'll be an artist of some kind.'

"... And his piano teacher says that he definitely has Van Gough's ear for music."

Building a Shelter

'Do I have to be creative?'

Mum has a bad judgement day - Well OK, you can take it to your room as long as you play it quietly.

Creative Baby.

"This is an excellent story, Doris, so far."

'All good things must come to an end.'

How to draw a martian!

'Look. Billy Curry did a nude!'

'For God's sake give me some angst, how will I ever write a misery memoir?'

"There's the pressure from my public, naturally, as well as the pressure from my publisher, my agent, and all that. But the real pressure comes from that devil inside that makes me different from other men, that makes me a writer. But, of course, you know all about pressure, grinding out those papers at Sarah Lawrence."

"Isn't it obvious? I'm writing the great American graphic novel."

Jackson Pollock as a child

Michelangelo painting with watercolors as a child.

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

Small child checks out a book.

Lessons from the Blakely Art School (Now Defunct)

"That' a wonderful picture, sweetheart. You know, maybe we should keep all of this garbage, in case you become a famous artist."

Teacher to student: 'Nice use of glitter, but you were assigned to do math problems.'