evidence: Hemingway never wrote drunk. Despite the quote being misattributed to him, the famous author apparently never said, "Write drunk, edit sober." And if he did say it, he certainly didn’t practice what he preached. [...] "Write drunk, edit sober" is bad advice for two reasons: [...] So why do we persist in believing otherwise? Because it’s easier. It's more pleasant to protect ourselves from the pain than to face the work we dread. We are, in essence, procrastinating when we rattle of such quotes as, "write drunk, edit sober."