Quote Originally Posted by spike

Plus, here are some bad examples who aren’t necessarily bad writers, just not to be copied: Samuel Beckett, Ernest Hemingway, Olaf Stapledon, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Martin Amis.
How can you say that? Beckett I understand. But Hemingway, Asimov, Heinlein? Some of the best fiction of the last century came from the minds of these men!

Heinlein's style inspired thousands to reach for space. Hemingway moved people's hearts to look deeper into themselves.

Asimov, well, he just wrote EVERYthing.