Budding Memoirist T-Shirts

'This photo is hardly suitable for your misery memoir.'

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

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

My First Camera

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

'Who I played in Summer Stock.'

Building a Shelter

'Do I have to be creative?'

How to draw a martian!

'All good things must come to an end.'

"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.

Creative Baby.

'My first camera'

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

'Look. Billy Curry did a nude!'

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

"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."

Jackson Pollock as a child

'What's the fist thing you're going to think of when your brain is fully formed?'

"So you can tweet. That's why you have to learn the alphabet."

Michelangelo painting with watercolors as a child.

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