Expository Writing Prompts Using Quotes

#1. If you care about [the characters] as if they were real, that always helps.

Tina Fey

#2. The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who have helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Ulysses S. Grant

#3. Their innocence is addicting, their hope is catching and I'm happy to be surrounded by them.

Fisher Amelie

#4. The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.

Placido Domingo

#5. The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems to him a mere play.

Sarada Devi

#6. I was a young girl, a virgin, and therefore men denied me rationality just as they denied it to all those who were not exactly like themselves, in all their unreason.

Angela Carter

#7. There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#8. The things that matter in this country have been reduced in choice, there are two political parties, there are a handful insurance companies, there are six or seven information centers.. but if you want a bagel there are 23 flavors. Because you have the illusion of choice!

George Carlin