evidence: But somehow in my mind, the Writer-Drinker Prize goes to Hemingway, although he was a teetotaler compared to Fitzgerald. Just pick up a work—any work by Hemingway—and read a few pages. Among many other things, you’ll soon be encountering wine, beer, spirits, aperitifs, tonics and beverages that you have never even heard of. (Of course, some of this has to do with the fact that many 20s/30s drinks are no longer are popular.) But it’s also clear he knocked back more than a few. Which all leads us to the supposed Hemingway quote on writing: [...] "Forget drinking. Write caffeinated, edit more caffeinated." [...] So, I really doubt that Hemingway ever "wrote drunk" though there is an awful good chance he wrote hungover at least some of the time. And there you have it.