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Category Archive: Philip Schultz

Philip Schultz Quote: “The word ‘novel’ carries, for me…”

The word ‘novel’ carries, for me, a weight as ominous, all-consuming and unforgiving as any Job encountered.

October 24, 2021 1945, American, Philip Schultz, Quotes by Poets

Philip Schultz Quote: “If I get the idea, and…”

If I get the idea, and I get some clarity on how I feel about that idea, then I can safely assume I’ll find the right words. I do have that confidence.

October 20, 2021 1945, American, Philip Schultz, Quotes by Poets

Philip Schultz Quote: “When a child knows that he…”

When a child knows that he or she is dyslexic, that it’s the way their brain is programmed, and it’s not their fault, that makes all the difference in the world.

September 3, 2021 1945, American, Philip Schultz, Quotes by Poets

Philip Schultz Quote: “I found many ways around my…”

I found many ways around my dyslexia, but I still have trouble transforming words into sounds. I have to memorize and rehearse before reading anything aloud to avoid embarrassing myself by mispronouncing words.

August 17, 2021 1945, American, Philip Schultz, Quotes by Poets

Philip Schultz Quote: “I not only couldn’t read but…”

I not only couldn’t read but often couldn’t hear or understand what was being said to me – by the time I’d processed the beginning of a sentence, the teacher was well on her way through a second or third.

July 20, 2021 1945, American, Philip Schultz, Quotes by Poets

Philip Schultz Quote: “I have to often read the…”

I have to often read the same sentence over and over before I understand it. And I have to convince myself that what I’m reading is so enjoyable and so exciting and so good for me that it’s worth the effort.

July 7, 2021 1945, American, Philip Schultz, Quotes by Poets

Philip Schultz Quote: “I eventually just imagined being a…”

I eventually just imagined being a little boy who was quote unquote ‘normal’: who could learn like all the kids around me that I felt excluded from. And I imagined myself into one of these and into someone who could read.

June 4, 2021 1945, American, Philip Schultz, Quotes by Poets

Philip Schultz Quote: “I was well into middle age…”

I was well into middle age when one of my children, then in the second grade, was found to be dyslexic. I had never known the name for it, but I recognized immediately that the symptoms were also mine.

April 14, 2021 1945, American, Philip Schultz, Quotes by Poets

Philip Schultz Quote: “There is a gap in my…”

There is a gap in my work from ’84 to 2002, 18 years where I stopped writing. I was working at fiction and other things and starting a school and getting married and starting a family, but I wasn’t writing poetry for the better part of 15 years.

April 12, 2021 1945, American, Philip Schultz, Quotes by Poets

Philip Schultz Quote: “I never doubted my talent. If…”

I never doubted my talent. If talent was the circus, then I was its ringmaster and audience, applauding its every move.

March 20, 2021 1945, American, Philip Schultz, Quotes by Poets

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