evidence: The new website design features rotating quotations from Hemingway toward the bottom of the homepage. One in the rotation shares this piece of writing wisdom: "There is nothing to writing. The attribution of this little gem to Hemingway has been debated for years. [...] The line about bleeding and writing is sometimes attributed to Smith although, like many quotations of this ilk, its origins are truly obscure. Walter Winchell, himself no mean journalist, wrote this in 1949: "Red Smith was asked if turning out a daily column wasn’t quite a chore. "Why, no," dead-panned Smith. "You simply sit down at the typewriter, open your veins, and bleed." Yet there is evidence that Paul Gallico, another sportswriter, used much the same language in 1946. [...] The author of the piece and operator of the website, Garson O’Toole does a commendable, footnoted job of tracing the notion of writing and bleeding in literary culture, stretching from mid-nineteenth-century sources through Smith, Gallico, and into the late twentieth century.