Budding Writer Gifts

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

"For me, it all began one gray and chilly morning in the grim maternity ward of a borderline hospital on the Upper West Side."

"I know its hard to believe right now, Lawrence, but some day you'll thank me for asking you to punctuate your sentences correctly."

"He can't come out to play right now...he's working on his autobiography."

"It's not in stock, but I can have it written."

"Do you want to play doctorate?"

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!'

'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.'

'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."

'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.'

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

'Do I have to be creative?'

How to draw a martian!

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

Creative Baby.

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

'My first camera'

'All good things must come to an end.'

'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

Lessons from the Blakely Art School (Now Defunct)

Michelangelo painting with watercolors as a child.

"Is there a problem officer?"