90 of the Best Opening Hooks From Articles With Over 10,000 Claps Each

Win over your reader — right from the start!

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“I made this up for added effect.” — J.J. Pryor

They say the only purpose of your first written sentence is to convince someone to read the next one.

The purpose of the next sentence is to convince someone to read the one after that.

And so it goes on in perpetuity until the very last word is read — you hope.

This article is an attempt to help you improve your own writing of openers, hooks, interest magnets, and tittilating wordlings. It’s a curation of hooks, ledes, and openers written by authors with huge amounts of views across the platform.

I’ve collected 10 of the best performing articles in 9 of the best performing topics — and extracted their opening lines.

After all, to become a better writer, one of the best shortcuts is to learn from the best. As such, most of these 90 stories have over 10,000 claps and very likely garnered at least thousands of views, if not hundreds of thousands.

So with only a bit of further adieu, here are 90 of the best hooks, ledes, and opening sentences to learn from for your own writing.