evidence: A quote often misattributed to Ernest Hemingway was actually spoken by author Peter De Vries (1910-1993) who said, "Write drunk, edit sober." This is not sage advice and I don’t recommend attempting to follow it, unless you deem yourself somewhat of a fraud. [...] If you write drunk, you are no longer that person – that artist who paints pictures with words. You are, in fact, someone else. Imagine your much younger self waking up in your college dorm with an unidentifiable "booty call" by your side. You stealthily retreat from bed, careful not to wake said partner, barricade yourself in the bathroom and look at yourself in the mirror. You ask yourself, "What have I done? I would never have done that sober." Such is the drunk writer. I understand that you are meant to edit sober, but, in my opinion, you are still "cheating". You are still forcing your words to escape through the fingertips of an impostor. You are, if you will, writing from another realm and it’s like you are plagiarizing your own self. You are stealing from your true self, so to speak.