It Just Works.

That's biographer Robert Caro, one of my all-time favorite writers, in the pic above, standing in the New York office where he does all of his writing.  Does a writer's space need to be ritzy? Does it need to be crammed with bookshelves or filing cabinets or piles of notes?  Nope.  It just needs to work for him.  Considering Caro's won the Pulitzer twice, I'd say this space has done its job.

Caro does his writing on an old Smith-Corona 210 typewriter, which you can see on his desk just right ...