Budding Romantic Gifts

Precocious child offering a young lady advice on love

"So where is this leading?"

"You want to say WHAT?"

"I'd like a packet of seeds for a first date, please."

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

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

My First Camera

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

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

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."

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

'My 'What I Did Over The Weekend' report is about my hunting a 17,000 pound moose, deep inside Canada.Some or all of this report has been fictionalized for dramatic purposes.'

" '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."

"... 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.'

'Do I have to be creative?'

Creative Baby.

'My first camera'

"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.

'All good things must come to an end.'

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

'Look. Billy Curry did a nude!'

"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."

No animals were harmed during the writing of this book report....

"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."

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

'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.'