Writing Prompts Using Quotes & Sayings

I do not travel. I am not much of an extrovert, and I'm not much interested in extroverted objects. I do not care for the 'ideas' of novelists. Novels are wonderful, of course, but I prefer newspapers. — Will Cuppy

Although you may spend your life killing, you will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain. — Nagarjuna

I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women. — Richard Dawkins

How can we know the true meaning of charity if we don't even know how to help those closest to us? — Sarah Addison Allen

I enjoyed writing. Perhaps it was because I hardly heard the sound of my own voice. My written words were my voice, speaking, singing, ... I was there on the page — Jenny Moss

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced. — Ned Rorem

Ignorance is the mother of all evils. — Francois Rabelais

Simon Cowell is tight. That's why he's so successful - he's able to keep his money to himself. — Niall Horan

Let's go take a walk down to the blue hole. You need to look at some water. — Barbara Kingsolver

Whatever may be the mysteries of life and death, there is one mystery which the cross of Christ reveals to us, and that is the infinite and absolute goodness of God. Let all the rest remain a mystery so long as the mystery of the cross of Christ gives us faith for all the rest. — Charles Kingsley

Carolyn Heilbrun's — Gloria Steinem

I tried to hostess ... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked. — Taylor Schilling

I cited 'Catch-22' as a landmark film and one of my favourites. — John Curran

That's it! That's the list. — Tony Kornheiser

When the universe compels me toward the best path to take, it never leaves me with "maybe," "should I," or even "perhaps." I always know for sure when it's telling me to proceed - because everything inside me rises up to reverberate "YES! — Oprah Winfrey