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Stumbled Upon this neat list:

http://americanbookreview.org/100BestLines.asp

While I disagree with many of the lines on that list being all that great, there are some gems in there. It also got me thinking, the first sentence of a story or novel may be one of the most important parts of the whole book. Which leads to this question: How much time do you spend on the first sentence/paragraph of your stories?

I know I personally spend a crap ton of time on them, which may be why most never get past the first few lines...

Anyways, how about you?

Also.. my favorite line from the above list.. and it really is a great opening line: It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. —George Orwell, 1984 (1949)

I haven't the faintest idea of why that didn't make the cut, as that is a much better opener then many I saw on that list.