23 Sentence Diagrams That Show The Brilliance Of Famous Novels' Opening Lines. ... each word sits on a different line in a different color. Consider George Orwell's "1984," for example.

The first line can be a beast to get right whether you’re composing a dating profile or drafting a workplace pitch – but when it comes to longform fiction, the stakes are vertiginous.

William Gibson: Writing the first sentence of a novel, for me, is something like filing, from a blank of metal, the key for a lock that doesn’t yet exist, in a door that doesn’t yet exist, set ...

Blinding LightBy Paul TherouxPublished in 2005“Wishing to go where you don’t belong is the condition of most people in the world” was the opening sentence of Trespassing.