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‘A first line is a threat, I think.’ Julia Armfield on the first sentence of her story ‘Longshore Drift’.

Amit Chaudhuri | First Sentence

‘A scene in which nothing is ostensibly happening will absorb me; so will a paragraph that contains no vital piece of information.’

‘A name is a single small token of selfhood issued at birth, upon which all the rest of one’s person must be built.’

‘We live in these places out of necessity, lucky to have them out of the terrible explosion of humanity.’

‘I think that the thing called thought can be viewed as rooted in the very real phenomenon of neurons firing.’

‘Several times I’ve wanted to title something one thing, but have realized or been persuaded it isn’t a good idea.’

‘Ever since this happened to me, I haven’t really believed in free will.’