#sentence

It was shaping up as a beautiful morning. The last thing I wanted to hear about was murder. ↗

— Jonathan Kellerman

#first-lines #first-sentence #beauty

Indian summer is like a woman. ↗

— Grace Metalious

#opening-lines #simile #simile

I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#teenagers

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

#humor #humor

I am damned,' thinks Bunny Munro in a sudden moment of self-awareness reserved for those who are soon to die. ↗

— Nick Cave

#opening-lines #opening-sentences #death

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister. ↗

— Adam Rapp

#first-sentence #murder #death

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#deeper #down #integrity #language #matches

Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't. ↗

— Joan Didion

#arrangement #because #early #eleven #hemingway

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#art #beautiful #concentrated #effort #enough

It’s funny how one summer can change everything. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#opening-lines #change