Budding Wordsmith Gifts

'You will write a book, but it won't be on Oprah's recommended list.'

1,001 names to Embarrass Your Child for Life.

"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!'

"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."

'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.'

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

'Who I played in Summer Stock.'

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

'Do I have to be creative?'

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

Creative Baby.

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.'

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.

"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.'

'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've finally finished my lockdown novel."