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The family landed in the Western Hemisphere in the person of Roger Blake Wolfe, who arrived with a price on his head.
— James Carlos Blake
Celestina Giuliani learned the word "slander" at her cousin's baptism.
— Mary Doria Russell
I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
Mickey Cray had been out of work ever since a dead iguana fell from a palm tree and hit him on the head.
— Carl Hiaasen
At last, the luminous match was struck and the day was lit.
— Dorit Rabinyan
This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport.
— Haruki Murakami
They murdered him.
— Robert Cormier
The sky is white.
— Diana Abu-Jaber
A screaming comes across the sky.
— Thomas Pynchon
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
He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
— Rafael Sabatini
My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
— Yann Martel
We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.
— Margaret Atwood
I was about thirteen when I started letting boys feel me up.
— Rebbecca Ray
First snow: it came this year late in November.
— John Updike
Thunder sounded, very near, and the child woke.
— Donna Woolfolk Cross
All right, don't scoff, mock or disbelieve: we live in mortal fear of not-quite-twins.
— Kamila Shamsie
It was hot, the night we burned Chrome.
— William Gibson
Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive.
— Masa Takayama
First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later.
— Richard Ford
It' her life, and she' in the middle of it.
— Esmeralda Santiago
With one sentence and two steps, forever began. Till Page walked through my door for the very first time.
— Aly Martinez
If you want vampires and werewolves, faeries, fallen angels or zombies, you won't find them here. I know a real-life monster.
— Stephanie Lawton
It was Wang Lung's marriage day.
— Pearl S. Buck
We were on our way to the colmado for an errand.
— Junot Diaz
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
At the first gesture of morning, flies began stirring.
— Charles Frazier
Snowman wakes before dawn.
— Margaret Atwood
Who was blowing on the nape of my neck.
— David Mitchell
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
— Italo Calvino
When Matussem Ramoud opened his eyes each morning, his wife would still not be there.
— Diana Abu-Jaber
Sentence first; verdict afterwards. -Queen of Hearts
— Lewis Carroll
Feast or famine. My plate is suddenly full.
— David Wong Louie
Time travel is awesome ... And useful. That sentence had a typo when I typed it ... The first time.
— Craig Benzine
I should probably start with the blood.
— Robin Wasserman
He was the deadliest man in Texas, on that they all agreed.
— James Carlos Blake
It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.
— Frederick Forsyth
Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm.
— William Gibson
The night before I left my mother, I wrote a letter.
— Esmeralda Santiago
Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston.
— Stephen King
In one simple sentence: what Christians want for the nation should first be a witnessed reality in their local church.
— Scot McKnight
There are only two kinds of math books: Those you cannot read beyond the first sentence, and those you cannot read beyond the first page.
— Chen-Ning Yang
All the elements in an advertisement are primarily designed to do one thing and one thing only: get you to read the first sentence of the copy.
— Joseph Sugarman
The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.
— George Orwell
All this happened, more or less.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Amy called the whale punkin.
— Christopher Moore
The first sentence of a book is a promise.
— Barbara Kingsolver
It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I held her feet in my hands.
— Geoff Nicholson
It was shaping up as a beautiful morning. The last thing I wanted to hear about was murder.
— Jonathan Kellerman
My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old.
— Robertson Davies
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.
— Shirley Jackson
Her first name was India-she was never able to get used to it.
— Evan S. Connell
The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
THE Right Honorable Edward Junius Carsington, Earl of Hargate, had five sons, which was three more than he needed.
— Loretta Chase
In those days people moved more slowly down there, and Arch, who did just opposite, might almost have been taken for a Yankee.
— Gerald Clarke
If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.
— Arthur Brisbane
I often dream about the Dolphin Hotel.
— Haruki Murakami
We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.
— David Mitchell
If [a short story author's] very initial sentence tend not to the out bringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step.
— Edgar Allan Poe
There once was a woman named Story Easton who couldn't decide if she should kill herself, or eat a double cheeseburger.
— Elizabeth Leiknes
Feathers fell from the sky. Like black snow, they drifted onto an old city called Bath.
— Stefan Bachmann
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
I wonder what kind of sound it would make if I were to smash this glass against the side of his head.
— Colleen Hoover
CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble.
— Audrey Niffenegger
Jerrie Cobb reached down and pulled the heavy layers of arctic clothing over her navy blue linen dress.
— Martha Ackmann
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
There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus.
— Joshilyn Jackson
The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.
— H.G.Wells
You only get married the first time once. There was the philosophy of a generation wrapped up in a tidy little sentence
— Carrie Vaughn
Midnight was closing in, the one-legged woman was grievously burned, and the Mumbai police were coming for Abdul and his father.
— Katherine Boo
If the devil ever raised a garden, the Everglades was it.
— James Carlos Blake
From above, start with the privileged view.
— Maureen Howard
Although I'm afraid I don't get too many clients these days!
— Patrick McCabe
Indian summer is like a woman.
— Grace Metalious
Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.
— Shane Koyczan
It's funny, Vasher thought, How many things begin with my getting thrown into prison.
— Brandon Sanderson
Quite like old times,' the room says.
— Jean Rhys
Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.
— Margaret Atwood
I don't know if I killed my dad or not.
— Jeanne Willis
When you've been struck by lightning as many times as I have, you start to expect the worst pretty much all the time.
— Jennifer Bosworth
The amber light came on.
— Jose Saramago