I am looking for authors that write with utter simplicity and brevity.
Writers like Ernest Hemingway or Raymond Carver.
Anyone have any suggestions?
I am looking for authors that write with utter simplicity and brevity.
Writers like Ernest Hemingway or Raymond Carver.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Yasunari Kawabata has a very spare style. Emily Dickinson is brief. Chekhov might be a good choice.
Remarque, Orwell, and Golding have simplicity.
simple and simplistic are different. Wordsworth is simple, Harry Potter is simplistic.
Isaac Asimov - unadorned, not much time spent on atmosphere and nuance. That's why I love reading him.
Elmore Leonard's writing philosophy was based on simplicity and invisibility.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
For brevity and simplicity that yet speaks volumes (à la Hemingway and Carver), check out Edouard Levé's Autoportrait.
http://www.amazon.fr/Autoportrait-Éd...dp/B00F5W6CD2/
There is a good English translation, too, executed by the editor of the Paris Review.
"J'ai seul la clef de cette parade sauvage."
- Rimbaud
"Il est l'heure de s'enivrer!
Pour n'être pas les esclaves martyrisés du Temps,
enivrez-vous;
enivrez-vous sans cesse!
De vin, de poésie ou de vertu, à votre guise."
- Baudelaire
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
Thoreau