There are many literary pens that were soaked in alcohol and in some cases this consumption made them "charming" like Charles Bukowski, Jack London or Marguerite Duras, and in others, it involved them in stories tinged with danger and tragedy like Burroughs who murdered the wife playing William Tell or John Cheever, who shared sorrowful writings about his addiction. The cases that multiply in the literature demonstrate how the letter of problematic alcohol consumption has as many nuances as types of drinks, but they are all part of a link that lends itself to analysis. Six of the Nobel Prize winners in Literature were heavy consumers of alcohol: Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, Steinbeck and the recent winner, the Norwegian Jon Fosse. "Writing is like praying," once said the last Nobel Prize winner, who for years was close to Quakers and is now a non-orthodox Catholic convert who goes to mass. "Before, alcohol consoled me; now literature and masses consoled me," he confessed on another occasion. "There is everything in the Lord's vineyard, it depends on each person's experience. But it is also true that there are many a priori fashions, poses and legends favorable to the positive perception of alcohol. It can be a social requirement, a form of snobbery, almost an attribute of the artist" Carlos Janin Writers drink a lot - the Frenchman Michel Houllebecq once explained - because writing is a work of strength. The range of cases is wide. From Samuel Beckett, who was passionate about whiskey to Graham Greene who wrote with a daikiri in his hand. Jack London, writer of adventure classics such as "White Fang" and "The Call of the Wild", wrote an autobiographical novel on the subject titled "Alcoholic Memoirs." Crossing the pond, Juan Onetti and Pablo Ramos from the River Plate also engaged in literary creation under the effects of drink. A few years ago, the Castillo Diaries were published posthumously. "My personal experience of alcoholism belongs to the myth, to the black legend of the writer and, in more ways than one, it belongs either wrongly or rightly to literature." This passage, which is titled "Days with a Mark" - in clear opposition to Jackson's book - reveals the struggle he maintained throughout his life.