Twitter user Dylan Smith has started a new Twitter account called Novel First Lines, on which he will tweet the first line of a novel every day for a year.
The Twitter handle got started on March 1st and will tweet through February 28, 2015. So far tweets have included the first sentences of Post Office by Charles Bukowski, The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley, and Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins.
We’ve embedded the tweets below.
If this typewriter can’t do it, then fuck it, it can’t be done.
— Novel First Lines (@novelfirstlines) March 3, 2014
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
— Novel First Lines (@novelfirstlines) March 2, 2014
It began as a mistake.
— Novel First Lines (@novelfirstlines) March 1, 2014