Ernest Hemingway

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Mariel Hemingway says that despite her grandfather's reputation as a drinker, Ernest Hemingway never wrote while under the influence of alcohol.

 

Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novel 'The Old Man and the Sea' Photo: 

Her grandfather, Ernest Hemingway, may be famous for his heavy drinking, but Mariel Hemingway, says writers need to stop pretending alcohol helps with the creative process.

“That’s not how he wrote,” the 51-year-old Manhattan actress says of The Old Man and the Sea author. “He never wrote drunk, he never wrote beyond early, early morning.”

She says he is often used to glamourise addiction. “So many writers glorify my grandfather’s way of living as much as they glorify his work. And so they try and mirror that,” she tells Interview Magazine. “I think it’s the misperception of addiction and living life on the edge, as if it’s cool.”

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