evidence: A Facebook post claims that American writer Ernest Hemingway said, "Write drunk, edit sober." [...] "He did not say that. That’s absolutely certain," said Hemingway biographer Dr. Mary Dearborn in an email to the Daily Caller. "He, along with most writers, made a point of saying he never wrote when drunk." The expression may actually be a variation of a statement from De Vries’ 1964 novel "Reuben, Reuben," according to Quote Investigator. De Vries credits one of the book’s character with saying, "Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk."