I can’t remember a time when I stepped into an airport or train station without wishing I were somewhere else, doing almost anything else. Just thinking about traveling gives me the willies. Traveling and dyslexia don’t really get along. Philip Schultz Read Quote
Letter scrambling and trouble reading is just a small part of dyslexia. It is also an auditory processing problem. Philip Schultz Read Quote
I write slowly, and I write many, many drafts. I probably have to work as hard as anyone, and maybe harder, to finish a poem. I often write a poem over years, because it takes me a long time to figure out what to say and how best to say it. Philip Schultz Read Quote
As a poet and a teacher, I read all the time. I know I read slowly. I like reading, but I don’t read any more than I have to. Philip Schultz Read Quote
Art’s power of persuasion resides in the small personal details of one’s own story, and if it weren’t for my struggle with dyslexia, I doubt I’d ever have become a writer or known how to teach others to write. Philip Schultz Read Quote
I never doubted my talent. If talent was the circus, then I was its ringmaster and audience, applauding its every move. Philip Schultz Read Quote
I was 17 when I decided to write stories as big as cathedrals, overflowing with the kind of memorable and audacious characters Walker Percy, Ernest Hemingway and Saul Bellow created. Philip Schultz Read Quote
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. Philip Schultz Read Quote
I come from a family of Russian immigrant Jews who were all big storytellers, who would get together, and one would try to top the others’ stories, and stories would get bigger and bigger. And the lying aspect, the exaggeration, would get large. Philip Schultz Read Quote
