But the idea is to provoke and persuade, not to soothe. And the best way to make an argument is to make it, straightforwardly, honestly, passionately, without regard to whether people will like you afterward.

Maud Newton

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In winter I like sprawling novels, full of conflict and intrigue, and during the bleakest, coldest days of December I holed up with Nicola Griffith 's Hild, a book of love and sex and war and religious upheaval, and I recommend it even over the warmest pair of Sorels.

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I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing... by Maud Newton

I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work to accumulate urgency.

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