[KarlInOhio]

As catty as the cool girls table in a junior high cafeteria.

I especially liked this one:

“Have you ever heard of anyone who drank while he worked? You’re thinking of Faulkner. He does sometimes – and I can tell right in the middle of a page when he’s had his first one.” — Ernest Hemingway

[laplata]

Yes, what a slob Hemingway was.

[RJS1950]

Faulkner was my first thought as well, although with Hemingway saying this the obvious thought is “It takes one to know one”.

Faulkner was an overrated, drunken hack who wrote to buy is next stock and store of booze. Little better than the same genre of “brilliant” reporters of his era.