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1) First of all we need a place to stand. -- Stephen Dobyns, The Wrestler's Cruel Study

2) Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. -- Katherine Neville, The Eight

3) Brother Francis Gerard of Utah might never have discovered the blessed documents, had it not been for the pilgrim with girded loins who appeared during that young novice's Lenten fast in the desert. -- Walter M. Miller, Jr., A Canticle for Liebowitz

4) In later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare, apropos of his and Joe Kavalier's greatest creation, that back when he was a boy, sealed and hog-tied inside the airtight vessel known as Brooklyn, New York, he had been haunted by dreams of Harry Houdini. -- Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay

5) Callahan's place was pretty lively that night. -- Spider Robinson, Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

6) Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways. -- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

7) It was dusk--winter dusk. -- Joan Aiken, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

8) It was starting to end, after what seemed most of eternity to me. -- Roger Zelazny, Nine Princes in Amber

9) These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr. Bucket. -- Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

10) Theodore is in the ground. -- Caleb Carr, The Alienist