“Call me Ishmael.” You might know that as the opening line of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Or this one: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” That’s how Jane Austin opened Pride and Prejudice. Or this opening line from Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis:” “As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.” Good opening lines are powerful.