I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and I can notice I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom.

A few years ago in Chicago, I rented an office, and I went there every day. For the most part I do work at home in an ugly room.

I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.

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