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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#column #dear #got #i #nothing

Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#augustine #common #i #make #me

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#him #i #ira #mean #shame

My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#disturb #goal #more #than #writer

The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#back #come #daughter #did #i

To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#exercise #hard #notes #out #over

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing. ↗

— Roscoe Mitchell

#approaching #basically #concerts #doing #i

I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#back #class #computer #days #first

I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage or writing computer viruses. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#adventure #causing #challenge #computer #curiosity

There was a period of time in America where the advertising world actually went to the housewives of America and had them write jingles that would appeal to them. It was actually brilliant marketing. ↗

— Julianne Moore

#advertising #america #appeal #brilliant #had