diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9df579e..5690072 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -18,21 +18,28 @@ Install python packages:
 pip3 install -r requirements.txt
 ```
 
-## Sample generation
+## Unconditional sample generation
 
 | WARNING: Samples are unfiltered and may contain offensive content. |
 | --- |
 
 To generate unconditional samples from the small model:
 ```
-python3 src/main.py | tee samples
+python3 src/generate_unconditional_samples.py | tee samples
 ```
 There are various flags for controlling the samples:
 ```
-python3 src/main.py --top_k 40 --temperature 0.7 | tee samples
+python3 src/generate_unconditional_samples.py --top_k 40 --temperature 0.7 | tee samples
 ```
 
-While we have not yet released GPT-2 itself, you can see some unconditional samples (with default settings of temperature 1 and no truncation) in `gpt2-samples.txt`.
+While we have not yet released GPT-2 itself, you can see some unconditional samples from it (with default settings of temperature 1 and no truncation) in `gpt2-samples.txt`.
+
+## Conditional sample generation
+
+To give the model custom prompts, you can use:
+```
+python3 src/interactive_conditional_samples.py
+```
 
 ## Future work
 
diff --git a/src/encoder.py b/src/encoder.py
index 285d643..5068cc6 100644
--- a/src/encoder.py
+++ b/src/encoder.py
@@ -93,16 +93,13 @@ class Encoder:
         self.cache[token] = word
         return word
 
-    def encode_text(self, text):
+    def encode(self, text):
         bpe_tokens = []
         for token in re.findall(self.pat, text):
             token = ''.join(self.byte_encoder[b] for b in token.encode('utf-8'))
             bpe_tokens.extend(self.encoder[bpe_token] for bpe_token in self.bpe(token).split(' '))
         return bpe_tokens
 
-    def encode(self, texts):
-        return [self.encode_text(text) for text in texts]
-
     def decode(self, tokens):
         text = ''.join([self.decoder[token] for token in tokens])
         text = bytearray([self.byte_decoder[c] for c in text]).decode('utf-8', errors=self.errors)
diff --git a/src/main.py b/src/generate_unconditional_samples.py
similarity index 100%
rename from src/main.py
rename to src/generate_unconditional_samples.py
diff --git a/src/interactive_conditional_samples.py b/src/interactive_conditional_samples.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..5038117
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/interactive_conditional_samples.py
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+import fire
+import json
+import os
+import numpy as np
+import tensorflow as tf
+
+from src import model, sample, encoder
+
+def interact_model(
+    model_name='117M',
+    seed=None,
+    nsamples=1,
+    batch_size=None,
+    length=None,
+    temperature=1,
+    top_k=0,
+):
+    if batch_size is None:
+        batch_size = 1
+    assert nsamples % batch_size == 0
+    np.random.seed(seed)
+    tf.set_random_seed(seed)
+
+    enc = encoder.get_encoder(model_name)
+    hparams = model.default_hparams()
+    with open(os.path.join('models', model_name, 'hparams.json')) as f:
+        hparams.override_from_dict(json.load(f))
+
+    if length is None:
+        length = hparams.n_ctx // 2
+    elif length > hparams.n_ctx:
+        raise ValueError(f"can't get samples longer than window size: {hparams.n_ctx}")
+
+    with tf.Session(graph=tf.Graph()) as sess:
+        context = tf.placeholder(tf.int32, [batch_size, None])
+        output = sample.sample_sequence(
+            hparams=hparams, length=length,
+            context=context,
+            batch_size=batch_size,
+            temperature=temperature, top_k=top_k
+        )[:, 1:]
+
+        saver = tf.train.Saver()
+        ckpt = tf.train.latest_checkpoint(os.path.join('models', model_name))
+        saver.restore(sess, ckpt)
+
+        while True:
+            raw_text = input("Model prompt >>> ")
+            context_tokens = enc.encode(raw_text)
+            generated = 0
+            for _ in range(nsamples // batch_size):
+                out = sess.run(output, feed_dict={
+                    context: [context_tokens for _ in range(batch_size)]
+                })
+                for i in range(batch_size):
+                    generated += 1
+                    text = enc.decode(out[i])
+                    print("=" * 40 + " SAMPLE " + str(generated) + " " + "=" * 40)
+                    print(f"{text}")
+            print("=" * 80)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    fire.Fire(interact_model)
+