Philip Schultz
Philip Schultz
Philip Schultzis an American poet, and the founder/director of The Writers Studio, a private school for fiction and poetry writing based in New York City. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including The God of Loneliness, Selected and New Poems; Failure, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; Living in the Past; and The Holy Worm of Praise. He is also the author of Deep Within the Ravine Viking Penguin, 1984), which was the Lamont Poetry...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
CountryUnited States of America
What I read, I read thoroughly and retain almost all of it.
job weight
The word 'novel' carries, for me, a weight as ominous, all-consuming and unforgiving as any Job encountered.
dialogue suddenly
Suddenly, I was reading these comics. I was looking at those bubbles, those dialogue bubbles, and suddenly there were words... recognizable words.
dyslexia poetry
Suddenly, everyone wanted to talk to me, it seemed. And not about my poetry: it was my dyslexia they were most interested in.
life people
Most people try to avoid cliches. It's my ambition in life to try to get 'em right!
letter processing trouble
Letter scrambling and trouble reading is just a small part of dyslexia. It is also an auditory processing problem.
doubted
I never doubted my talent. If talent was the circus, then I was its ringmaster and audience, applauding its every move.
held until
I didn't learn how to read until I was at the end of fifth grade and 11 years old and held back.
failure great life theme
Failure has been the great theme of my life, I think.
bigger family immigrant jews russian stories top
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.
automated boarding easier harder home online passes people schedules sounds ticket traveling
I know it sounds strange to say, but the very technologies that have made traveling easier for most people - GPS, automated ticket machines, online schedules and ticketing, boarding passes you can print out at home - have actually made things harder for me.
poet teacher time
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.
anxiety art escape great imagination life
My imagination was a great place to escape from all the anxiety and disapproval of my life... I had to live in my head... art was a way of making myself feel better.
careful fast great love painfully selective slow
I'm a painfully slow reader. And to this day, I mean, I love reading, and I'm very careful - very selective about what I read because I don't read very fast and, therefore, not a great deal.