NPR's Scott Simon talks with David LaBounty, co-founder of the literary quarterly The First Line. LaBounty gives readers the first line of a short story, and they continue from there. I saw a magazine ...

British novelist Charles Dickens (1812-1870) sat in his study in Gads Hill near Rochester, Kent circa 1860. He wrote one of the best first lines in literature. Great opening lines to books set the ...

Any book-lover will tell you that one of the best feelings around is opening a book, reading the first line, and knowing immediately that you're going to get lost in it. Cancel your plans, ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Dumbledore's first line is addressed to a Hogwarts professor. First appearance: "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" Albus Dumbledore has the ...