Budding Spies Gifts

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

Young Frank Lloyd Wright

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!'

Kid with messed up project in Wood Shop, titled: 'Wouldn't Shop'

'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."

'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."

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

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

'My first camera'

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

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

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

"My buildings are meant to inspire."

"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."

'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.'

'Don't just stand there, get into focus!'

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

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

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

Bassoon practice.

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

A child busking

"I attempted to circumvent the traditional trappings of a teen furlough...but I was thwarted by my czar-ish parental unit."

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

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

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

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

Hope you're still writing that novel!