Q: This is not much of a vacation for you. How much did you write yesterday?

A: I don't know. A lot.

I hate vacations. Holidays are for working, Marc Chagall said.

Holidays interfere with writing. The post office is closed, the library is closed. Vacations are worse. They go on and on.

Just let me sit in my room and write and not have to go anywhere, see anyone. Overhear passive conversation.