I'm trying to write the first line of my book, and I figured the best way to do that would be to look and see what the hooks of my favorite novels were; what got me to subconsciously move forward.
I figured this might be kind of fun for all of us to add to.
"I'd been waiting for the vampire for years before he walked into the bar." - Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris (True Blood series, book 1)
"A throng of bearded men, in sad-coloured garments and grey steeple-crowned hats, inter-mixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes." - The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
"I felt her before I heard her screams." Vampire Academy (book 1), Richelle Mead
"Station: In all the world of the drow, there is no more important word. It is the calling of their--of our--religion, the incessant pulling of hungering heartstrings. Ambition overrides good sense and compassion is thrown away in its face, all in the name of Lloth, the Spider Queen." Homeland: The Dark Elf Trilogy, R.A. Salvatore
"Dear Diary,Something awful is going to happen today." The Awakening (Vampire Diaries, book 1), L.J. Smith
"While preparing this book, I have been asked, by many skeptical people, questions like: 'How could vampires really exist?' or even, 'Are you serious?'" Vampires: The Occult Truth, Konstantinos
"The air hummed with bass guitar and rampant lust. He'd come to the right place." All I Want for Christmas is a Vampire, Kerrelyn Sparks
"About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income." Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
"1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord--the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with." Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
"The year 1866 was marked by several strange and mysterious events at sea." 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
"No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine." Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
I figured this might be kind of fun for all of us to add to.
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"I'd been waiting for the vampire for years before he walked into the bar." - Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris (True Blood series, book 1)
"A throng of bearded men, in sad-coloured garments and grey steeple-crowned hats, inter-mixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes." - The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
"I felt her before I heard her screams." Vampire Academy (book 1), Richelle Mead
"Station: In all the world of the drow, there is no more important word. It is the calling of their--of our--religion, the incessant pulling of hungering heartstrings. Ambition overrides good sense and compassion is thrown away in its face, all in the name of Lloth, the Spider Queen." Homeland: The Dark Elf Trilogy, R.A. Salvatore
"Dear Diary,
"While preparing this book, I have been asked, by many skeptical people, questions like: 'How could vampires really exist?' or even, 'Are you serious?'" Vampires: The Occult Truth, Konstantinos
"The air hummed with bass guitar and rampant lust. He'd come to the right place." All I Want for Christmas is a Vampire, Kerrelyn Sparks
"About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income." Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
"1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord--the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with." Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
"The year 1866 was marked by several strange and mysterious events at sea." 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
"No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine." Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
