diff --git a/sample.py b/sample.py
index 8b42c8f..670759b 100644
--- a/sample.py
+++ b/sample.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ from model import GPTConfig, GPT
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 init_from = 'resume' # either 'resume' (from an out_dir) or a gpt2 variant (e.g. 'gpt2-xl')
 out_dir = 'out' # ignored if init_from is not 'resume'
-start = "\n" # or "<|endoftext|>" or whatever you like
+start = "\n" # or "<|endoftext|>" or etc. Can also specify a file, use as: "FILE:prompt.txt"
 num_samples = 10 # number of samples to draw
 max_new_tokens = 500 # number of tokens generated in each sample
 temperature = 0.8 # 1.0 = no change, < 1.0 = less random, > 1.0 = more random, in predictions
@@ -74,6 +74,9 @@ else:
     decode = lambda l: enc.decode(l)
 
 # encode the beginning of the prompt
+if start.startswith('FILE:'):
+    with open(start[5:], 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
+        start = f.read()
 start_ids = encode(start)
 x = (torch.tensor(start_ids, dtype=torch.long, device=device)[None, ...])