I am trying to read fiction more these days. I find authors writing style my reason to read or re-read them.
From RK Narayanan, Khuswant Singh, Satyajit Ray, Gorge Orwell to Ernest Hemingway. I find they are writing uber-simple in a free flow. These are some folks I enjoy reading again and again.
There are some other writers whose writing I find extremely difficult to understand. Could it be because we have progressed in literature? Could it be their complex writings?
Any budding writer should focus on simple flow in story writing. It will get more readers, simplicity scales with time.