Some people are saying that this sounds like a parody. It's not. I totally understand where the author is coming from. Also, bear in mind that he is a writer, a

Some people are saying that this sounds like a parody. It's not. I totally understand where the author is coming from. Also, bear in mind that he is a writer, and writers need very specific things to function. Many writers do great work in hotel rooms. JK Rowling famously checked into a hotel room to finish Harry Potter. Maya Angelou used to check into hotel rooms for weeks at a time to finish her books. There is something very helpful about removing all of the known objects of your life, each with its own history in your brain, and replacing the functions (bed, desk, bathroom) while clearing out the connotations. Now you can focus on your interior story without having it compete with the running to-do list that, say, seeing your drippy faucet might spark.