This isn't your average business podcast, and he's not your average host.

This is the James Altiger Show.

Welcome back to Hooked on the First Line, where we analyze some of the best first lines

in all literature, and the reason we do this is because to understand and to analyze

the first line of something helps us as creators, artists, writers, whatever.

The first line is the most important line, maybe in the book, next to the last line, because

if the first line is great, get to read the second line, the third line, the fourth

line, and we all want to create things that people continue to either view or read or

whatever.

So, Kyle, welcome back.

Thank you very much.

Do you ever want to write a novel?

You know, I think when I was young, I had it in my mind, but I always felt that I needed

more experience with life.

And then, as my life pushed forward, a lot of things got piled on, and so if I do, it

will be something that happens toward the end.

Yeah.

That could be.

I had the ego and hubris to think that I could write a novel out of a young age.

So I wrote novel after novel after novel when I was from the ages of like 21 to 26.

And none of them were good, none of them were published, but maybe it helped me hone

my skills a little bit.

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