Neil Gaiman's Journal: Iain Banks. With or without the M.
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2013/06/iain-banks-with-or-without-m.html
If you've never read any of his books, read one of his books. Then read another. Even the bad ones were good, and the good ones were astonishing.
Kung Fu Monkey: THIS is Why I'm Not Answering Your Goddam Phone Calls
http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2008/10/this-is-why-im-not-answering-your.html
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."