Why does place matter?

I think Annie Dillard and Scott Sanders have some of the same ideas about place when it comes to the spaces they need to write. Both writers have a special place where they can write and in some part, it is just a place they can escape to mentally. For example, Sanders in Writing from the Center says "in order to work you must withdraw, if only into the room of imagination" (p 164). This place can only be created by him and is essential for him to work. In the case of Annie Dillard in The Writing Life she must be in the right state of mind to write well. She says that she needs to have the right amount of energy without excess and that a "first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce" (p 6-7). The writers have to bring about these places in the mind when they want to write. Even though their environment may help them whether it is a sparse cabin or a room to work alone nothing will be done unless you are in the right frame of mind.