Frankie Cosmos Quotes

I personally feel I still have so much to learn as a writer; each novel is better than the one before, just because I'm getting better at it.

I feel like I'm getting better at being a writer.

I'm writing; I'm teaching myself writing.

I have grown in my writing and I care about it now and I know how important it is to write stuff.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.

I'm learning a lot, and I'm trying to make it so that every time I write, it's better than the last time I've written.

It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work in order to learn and tell better stories.

I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.

I believe that I improve with every book I write - most writers will probably tell you the same thing. I'm still learning my craft and will be until the day I drop dead at my computer. In my opinion, art isn't something that can be perfected. There's always room for improvement.

Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.

I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

I wanted to make 'Nobody Knows,' a kind of summation of the experiences I gained from making my first three films, the good ones as well as the bad ones.

I started to music when I was about 19 years old. Most people that do music, they get training, or they develop themselves before they let their music out. For myself, I was actually developing myself and putting my music out at the same time.

I like to think I grow as a writer from every new experience.

The first song that I wrote that I was proud of was probably 'Hunter' from the first record. But I listen that now and I don't know. I mean, it's got a good hook, but still. I'm proud of it. I'm as proud as I can be of all the ideas, but I think 'Party' showed a maturity that I don't think I had on 'Aldous Harding.'

I've grown more and more appreciative of good writing, and I now really hope I can become a better and better writer.

I learned to write by writing.

I've been writing as long as I've been able to form words. I never wrote with an idea of publishing anything until I began working on '[To Kill a] Mockingbird'. I think that what went before may have been a rather subconscious form of learning how to write, of training myself.

I am trying to keep growing and improving as a writer.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time.

I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.

Now, when we first started, I would be playing something good and then feel like I wasn't doing the right thing and launch into some idiotic cliche. Luckily for me, Bobby was patient.

A Tribe Called Quest was one of those things where it was supposed to be about growth. When I say 'growth,' I don't just mean with our sound or our product, but Tribe was supposed to grow as individuals.

Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.