285 Quotes About First-lines

He'd never killed a woman in cold blood before, but now was as good a time as any.

Back before there was time, I lived with my father on an island, tucked away in an endless archipelago that reached up out of the cold salt water, hungry for air.

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

Hello, my name is Albany, and I have a telepathic connection with my twin sister, along with the ability to read minds.

In darkness there is death.

(If you read this story out loud, please use the following voices:ME: as a child, high-pitched, forgettable; as a woman, the same.THE BOY WHO WILL GROW INTO A MAN, AND BE MY SPOUSE: robust with serendipity.MY FATHER: kind, booming; like your father, or the man you wish was your father.MY SON: as a small child, gentle, sounding with the faintest of lisps; as a man, like my husband.ALL OTHER WOMEN: interchangeable with my own.)

Who is John Galt?

The first line of a novel is the pinhead upon which the great structure will stand or fall.

The most difficult thing about writing; is writing the first line.