Budding Detective Gifts

"He's so inquisitive! I wonder what he'll be when he grows up..."

'My budgie's escaped.'

"Do you want to play doctorate?"

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

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

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

'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."

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

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

'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.'

'This is your spinal column...It's a bunch of bones that runs up and down your back and keeps your legs from going all the way up to your neck.'

"Dad, this is Wendy, she's going to re-negotiate my allowance!"

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

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

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

'He takes bathtime seriously.'

"Viola player coming through!"

"We can speak freely now. I've encrypted the line."

"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."

"You want to say WHAT?"

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

'I'm not sure if he plays that loud because he has a good set of lungs or if it's a mean streak in him.'

'I can't find the words to express my anger with you.' - 'She needs a dictionary.'

'Who else have I written for? Ridge Park Avenue, 7th Street, Elm Road, Thornwood Drive...'

"I just got a huge advance for my first novel. It's about a writer who gets a huge advance for his first novel."

"My report on summer vacation. . . Book and movie rights are available for $1000 each."

A child busking

"You'll have to imagine the melody for this next song, too."

'I must be getting good, because my Dad told me to go play for the neighbours!'

Orchestra

Hope you're still writing that novel!

'Publisher recommends a good paper shredder.'