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.

Last week’s column featuring some memorable ending sentences I have “collected” while browsing bookstores brought numerous requests for a bookend prequel of opening lines that really knock ...

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 ...