The Importance of a Nice Office

"I would have thought like writing and researching would be the place you'd want to do in the smoking room with the brandy tumbler and the iris-setter at your feet. I have found that it just doesn't, it doesn't work that way for me," he says. "When my office is tidy and looking nice, which isn't always, it isn't at the moment... But when it's at its nicest, it is motivating as well."