Sentence examples for before the first page from inspiring English sources

Before the first page, a reader might be in tears.

It allows you to focus your results, even before the first page of search results actually appears.

The Gospels is missing its flyleaf, the protective page before the first page.

As Babe of the Day dwindled, dating-app Tinder (launched eight months before the first page) was just starting to gain a following in New Zealand.

Her knack for letting characters reveal mountains about themselves in a few words shows up even before the first page, as her parents bicker neurotically about the table of contents they find next to them.

Each one is lengthy, creating an immediate burden on the part of the reader before even the first page is opened.

Make sure to hook the readers and start off the action relatively quickly so that the readers aren't putting down the book before finishing the first page.

With my first novel, Vernon God Little, I designed a cover before I wrote the first page".

How thoroughly do you outline before you write the first page of the book?

I don't outline, but I do have the whole mental skeleton of a book in my head before I start the first page.

Additional clues: pen being held halfway down the page in the absolute dead centre of it, where nobody has ever held a pen before; still using the first page of the notepad, suggesting no drafts at all; and, wait, why does a billionaire not have a leather-bound notebook to hand?