Quote: Charlie Jane Anders on Sentences for Fiction
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People will advise you to write all sorts of sentences. Snappy sentences, lyrical sentences, Hemingway-esque short sentences, long Faulknerian sentences. But there’s really only one kind of sentence that actually works: a sentence that carries the reader forward from the previous sentence.
— Charlie Jane Anders, The Only Kind of Sentence You Should Use in Your Fiction