I love the way
Maya Angelou
wrote. It even inspires me to try it someday.
She would rent a hotel -- even while being in her hometown -- because that gave her that peace and quiet she needed. I belive at first it was a chance thing. like she happened to be in a hotel and writing and it proved productive. later it became more deliberate.
I have kept a hotel room in every town I’ve ever lived in. I rent a hotel room for a few months, leave my home at six, and try to be at work by six-thirty. To write, I lie across the bed, so that this elbow is absolutely encrusted at the end, just so rough with callouses. I never allow the hotel people to change the bed, because I never sleep there. I stay until twelve-thirty or one-thirty in the afternoon, and then I go home and try to breathe; I look at the work around five; I have an orderly dinner—proper, quiet, lovely dinner; and then I go back to work the next morning.
