Here is a link to a Reader’s Digest article with John Updike. Below is a sampling. I aspire to the multiple writing rooms. I would like to start with a room with a view.
Q: Ever suffer from writer’s block?
A: Every day there’s a struggle. I think, Is this worth doing? Am I doing it well? Then there’s the gratuitousness of writing fiction–of writing about people who don’t exist. But there are many privileges in a freelance, self-employed life. Writing every day is a small price.
Q: Give us a tour of the three desks you have at home.
A: We moved into an old summer-house built on a patrician scale. I took the maids’ quarters, above the kitchen-four small rooms plus a bath. In the room with a wooden desk and a typewriter, I write mail. In the room with a steel desk and a view of the sea, I read proofs and write by hand. A third room has a white desk and a computer for final drafts and longer letters. And the fourth, where I read, has an easy chair.