Quotes Writing Prompt

Quotes can make great writing prompts. These quotes are meant to inspire writing. Students can use the quote as the spark for a story, explain how the quote relates to them, or even focus on the main idea of the quote.

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship"

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.”

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“What’s the point of having a voice if you’re gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn’t be?”

Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“They say nothing lasts forever but they’re just scared it will last longer than they can love it.”

Ocean Vuong, On Eart We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.”

Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?”

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”

John Green, Looking for Alaska

“And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.”

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale