As all good journalists will tell you, the key to writing a good newspaper story or opinion piece is to make sure that the very first line grabs the reader’s attention. Many authors also employ this tactic in writing books. Few of us have read Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, but many of us know that it begins with three famous words: “Call me Ishmael.” A powerful first line can also stick with readers long after they have finished reading – we all recognize the phrase “It was a dark and stormy night,” but few of us know that it comes from the opening line of a book by an obscure writer (Paul Clifford by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton).

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