Thank you for enriching our lives with rhyme and memorable characters. Did you know that Dr. Seuss was rejected 43 times before he was finally published? This give hope to any and every writer out there. Dr. Seuss was a genius, and that's a fact.
My short story teacher said that his first line of How the Grinch Stole Christmas is the greatest first line ever written: "Every Who down in Who-ville liked Christmas a lot...But the Grinch, who lived just north of Who-ville, did NOT!" This is the best first line because it tells us our characters, gives us a conflict, and gives us time to resolve that conflict.
Thank you, Dr. Seuss, for giving us the Grinch, Horton, Sam I am, and all the other timeless characters. I hope to one day be half the writer that you were.
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