Space Just Doesn't Matter

I found the question asked at the end of class yesterday interesting, and couldn't help but think about it more even after class ended. Is a pen and a room of her own all a woman needs in order to write? Is Woolf correct when she states this?

It seemed as if a lot of us took Woolf's statement as a metaphor; instead of specifically talking about an actual room for writing, the "a room of one's own" could be any special space a writer has for writing. It could be a corner in a library, a spot by a lake, or like I mentioned in class, a coffeehouse just as J.K Rowling used to write the first Harry Potter book before she had gained fame and fortune. I liked what Sarah began talking about in class, how sometimes an actual room can be too confining, and doesn't allow the writer to think beyond the limits of that room.

I liked thinking that Woolf's statement was more of a metaphor. When I first read her statement, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction," I had thought perhaps Woolf was speaking about the imagination of a writer. Instead of being a metaphor for any special space, the "a room of her own" could be about all a writer needs is her imagination and a pen.....nothing else. My take on this comes from my belief that a writer has to write. They just have this impulse and need to write all the time. They don't need a room of their own, or even a piece of paper. Just as J.K. Rowling did, writers will use whatever they have in order to express their imagination and physical need to write; whether this is on a napkin, on a sticky note, or even on the walls, writers will write no matter what. Space just doesn't matter for writers because as long as they have their imagination, they will find a way to express it.