Showing posts with label first lines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label first lines. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Beginnings


Until you turn on the faucet
the bowl is empty

Until you read the first line
the story is empty

Here is a first line I like:

On a continent of many songs, in a country shaped like the arm of a tall guitarrista, the rain drummed down on the town of Temuco.

--from The Dreamer by Pam Munoz Ryan

Do you have a favorite first line?