“What’s so hard about that first sentence is that you’re stuck with it."

Joan Didion

Oh yeah you are. 

Important to make sure you have a yummy bait and a tiny bit of the hook exposed. 

For example, 

"Call me Ishmael." 

Herman Melville's first line in Moby Dick took us on a first class voyage.

Like the first brick laid everything builds off of the first sentence.