How many writers take vacations away from their writing tools, even if they’re just writing pads? Genuine question.

Do you mean vacations as in extended period of break, or just a mini break? I read somewhere Virginia Woolf didn’t have a habit of writing after sundown.

Extended period — days & weeks. Coz writing maybe work. And vacations are meant to take one away from work.

Not sure if anyone actively advocated for it. Dostoevsky was a lunatic night owl, Tolstoy had discipline and hated himself when he couldn't write. From what I know, they'll have an off-day or more once in a while and write about how not writing has made them either miserable or super elated, no in-between.

Writers are a metaphor here. Coz everyone else seems to be waiting to run away from their ‘work’ and seek vacation days away from such miserable days.

I don’t remember doing this when I used to write for work. Right now, I have the liberty of writing for myself so down time is for writing. But I am trying to make it into a routine.

The way to think is different for both?