Neatorama - Blog Archive - The Naked Truth: Authors Who Write in the Buff.
http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/the-naked-truth-authors-who-write-in-the-buff
"Victor Hugo ... concocted a unique scheme to force himself to write: he had his servant take all of his clothes away for the day and leave his own nude self with only pen and paper, so he’d have nothing to do but sit down and write."