Hemingway

Why did he think basic writing was a virtue?

What is basic writing to you?

>"lol is this a fuckin kids book or something?"
>~Faulkner on Hemmingway

Because he was a repressed homo who didn't want his faggotry to be revealed if he tried to write in a sophisticated fashion

Keep in mind he was the only guy doing that style at the time before it became the go to cover up style for weak writers. If I were to take a guess its origination was probably due to a reaction against writers like Henry James

I'd guess that he relates it back to ego. Ego is a huge flaw in a lot of writers, and in a lot of writing.

Writing something sincerely often means getting it down to its essence, and thus the essence of the emotion and story. Dressing it up is just an exercise in masturbation for the author rather than focusing on the story itself. That'd be my guess.

I like Hemingway, but obviously there's a place for him the same as Joyce, Pound, Woolf, etc.

>He never sent anyone running to the dictionary
>Faulkner on Hemmingway

because it is

I absolutely hate this Hemingway basic writing style and its promotion has done enormous harm to literature, lowering the standards and making it so any idiot can, to the jewish publishing industry's choosing, fake it and make it, meanwhile blurring the line between good and bad writing/writers. It's why the style-focused people are right to make that the only deciding factor in a sea of mediocrity where well-edited 9th grade drivel can be passed off as "literature." I actually liked Hemingway a lot when I was younger, too, but can't overlook the damage anymore.

he was a drunk who couldn't sober up enough to write sentences longer than ten words