Indie Scribe Magazine September Issue | Page 40

For Inspiration: Great Opening Lines.

Sometimes the hardest to write, here are some well known openers, do you know them? Answers on Index Page.

1) “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”

2) ‘It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.’

3) "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."

4) "All children, except one, grow up."

5) "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day."

6) "It was the day my grandmother exploded."

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