Top 35 Opening Sentence Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Opening Sentence

#1. No one dared do it before, not in front of the King (opening sentence)

#2. I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

#3. The rig began shaking like caffeine withdrawal." --Opening sentence of THE FURY.

"The duct-taped Buick swam north on Rush Street, hunting whores like a lesser white shark." --First sentence of Chapter One, THE FURY

Shane Gericke

#4. Hook your editor with a strong opening sentence to bring attention to your writing.

W. Terry Whalin

#5. Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#6. As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

Michael Cunningham

#7. Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton.

Ernest Hemingway,

#8. The bed woke Kali up with a soft caress, dressed her in her favorite comfy robe, and gently deposited her, standing vertically, in one-sixth gravity.

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#9. The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.

William Golding

#10. Call me Ishmael.

Herman Melville

#11. They have said that we owe allegiance to Safety, that he is our Red Cross who will provide us with ointment and bandages for our wounds and remove the foreign ideas the glass beads of fantasy the bent hairpins of unreason embedded in our minds.

Janet Frame

#12. The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

George Orwell

#13. I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

James Thurber

#14. He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

Rafael Sabatini

#15. When a naked man shows up on your doorstep with a bear trap clamped around his ankle, it's best just to do what he asks

Molly Harper

#16. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Charles Dickens

#17. Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

J.K. Rowling

#18. There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus.

Joshilyn Jackson

#19. Sam LeClaire was a good-looking son of a bitch.

Rachel Gibson

#20. There is a delicate-looking plant native to North America called bleeding heart.

Josh Aterovis

#21. There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#22. It was Wang Lung's marriage day.

Pearl S. Buck

#23. No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

Shirley Jackson

#24. There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.

Neil Gaiman

#25. It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.

Lois Lowry

#26. I am damned,' thinks Bunny Munro in a sudden moment of self-awareness reserved for those who are soon to die.

Nick Cave

#27. First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later.

Richard Ford

#28. I still have a stammer that I can control by not opening a sentence with a hard consonant, or by concentrating for a moment, breathing softly down. Growing up, the 'Our Father' was lovely, made for me, the 'Hail Mary' was gorgeous, and 'Glory Be to the Father' was an absolute nightmare.

Colm Toibin