evidence: Did Hemingway Really 'Write Drunk, Edit Sober?' [...] Hemingway fans also became obsessed with his writing practice. Most famously, the phrase "write drunk, edit sober" has become a meme in internet writing circles, seemingly encouraging writers to connect with their bohemian selves and reach for the bottle to uncork their literary muse. But there's just one problem: Hemingway never said it, nor did it appear in any of his published work or private correspondence. It's a misattribution as well as a misquote, and while Hemingway certainly enjoyed partaking in a drink or several, the evidence shows that his view when it came to mixing alcohol and writing was quite the opposite. [...] The famous morsel of writing advice "write drunk, edit sober" isn't a piece of real-world wisdom at all. In fact, the phrase actually comes from a 1964 novel by the American humorist Peter De Vries (pictured) named "Reuben, Reuben" and reads: "Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline."