evidence: The Bloody Typewriter: What Every Writer Needs to Know According to Hemingway "There’s nothing to writing, all you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." Ernest Hemingway supposedly said that. Many attribute the quote to other writers. But Hemingway is the focus of this blog, so we’re going to say it’s a Hemingway quote, for now. [...] To sit down and "bleed" at your keyboard will likely result in crap. You’ll need to bleed and then sweat, working hard to make the bleeding worth your reader’s time.