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Friday, June 15, 2012

Favorite First Lines

A couple of days ago I announced the new Writing Challenge, in which asked you guys to take the first sentence of my new book The Spindlers and write the next 200 words. This got me thinking about first lines in general.It's amazing that sometimes the very first words leap straight off the page and into your heart. So to help further inspire you all in your writing, here are some of my favorite first lines in books! I'd love to hear what some of yours are!

And don't forget to get me your challenge submissions by 6.20.12!

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road and met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo...
-James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember the distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
--One Hundred Years of solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say they were normal, thank you very much.
--Harry Potter, dur

Strike spotted her: baby fat, baby face, Shanelle or Shanette, fourteen years old maybe, standing there with that queasy smile, trying to work up the nerve.
--Clockers, Richard Price

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think he or she is wonderful.
--Roald Dahl, Matilda

35 comments:

Kirthi said...

Hello Ms. Oliver!
I love the Harry Potter and Matilda quotes! Roald Dahl was such a hilarious author, and J.K Rowling a brilliant one :) I haven't read the other ones, but I'm adding them to my TBR!

Happy reading (and writing :D)
-Kirthi

Unknown said...

If you're going to read this, don't bother.
-Choke, Chuck Palahniuk

All children, except one, grow up.
-Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
-Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

t is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.
-Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.
-Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk

As Gregor Samsa awoke from a night of uneasy dreaming, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
-Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka

It has been sixty-four years since the president and the Consortium identified love as a disease, and forty-three since the scientists perfected a cure.
-Delirium, Lauren Oliver :)

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The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. ~ Uglies, Scott Westerfeld

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