evidence: A post shared on Facebook claims that author Ernest Hemingway once said, "There is nothing to writing. [...] However, there’s no reason to believe that Hemingway equated writing with bleeding, as the Facebook post claims. The quote appears nowhere in his collected works or selected letters. [...] The saying may have originated in print during the 1940s, when sportswriter Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith was asked whether he had difficulty writing a daily column. "Why, no," he was quoted as saying in 1949. "You simply sit down at the typewriter, open your veins, and bleed."