Bleed.

“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. “I think it’s the misperception of addiction and living life on the edge, as if it’s cool."

Mariel Hemingway

His phrase, if he said it, "Write drunk, edit sober," is a metaphor, kids; not far off from "There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."