The Good, Bad and Ugly Habits of Famous Writers

Let’s cover booze first…

And the most famous boozy writer of all time?

Take Ernest Hemingway.

A prolific and inspired writer, he was also notorious for his drinking.

His biographer Anthony Burgess wrote:

“The manager of the Gritti Palace in Venice tells me…that three bottles of Valpolicella rst thing in the day were nothing to him, then there were the daiquiris, Scotch, tequila, bourbon, vermouthless martinis. e physical punishment he took from alcohol was… actively courted.”

Although he struggled with alcoholism, Hemingway went to great lengths to sober up before the end his life, and he never wrote while drunk.

In Interview Magazine, Hemingway’s granddaughter Mariel said about Ernest:

“That’s not how he wrote. He never wrote drunk, he never wrote beyond early, early morning….So many writers glorify my grandfather’s way of living as much as they glorify his work. And so they try and…