evidence: The Truth Behind ‘Write Drunk, Edit Sober’ For Creatives [...] The famous quote has been falsely attributed to Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and even Stephen Fry, none of whom seem to have actually said it. In fact, Ernest Hemingway’s granddaughter clearly stated in an interview that he never mixed his writing and alcohol. "That’s not how he wrote," says Mariel Hemingway. "He never wrote drunk, he never wrote beyond early, early morning."