“Adverbs are cholesterol in the veins of prose. Halve your adverbs and your prose pumps twice as well.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I'm glad you like adverbs — I adore them; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
There's enough adverbs in the world for you to start creating new ones. — Christopher Owens Copy Share Image
Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
It is not the diamonds or the birds, the people or the potatoes; it is not any of the nouns. The miracle… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“If you've used adverbs, look at them carefully. Adverbs are the weakest words; verbs are the strongest. Many, many times I've found… — Chris Offutt Copy Share Image
Adverbs, we know, are meant to modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. They help us understand things more clearly, more… — Faith Salie Copy Share Image
I get imaginative with a mouth full of adjectives, A brain full of adverbs, and a box full of laxatives, Shittin' on… — Eminem Copy Share Image
Don Basilio was a forbidding-looking man with a bushy mustache who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
No worries, Atticus. I will snarf surreptitiously. And I should get bacon, because my adverb was two syllables longer than yours, plus… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
I think the best way to put it is that newspictures are the noun and the verb; our kind of photography is… — Roy Stryker Copy Share Image
I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather;… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I am such a person of words. I've spent so much of my life trying to get it right, say it right,… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's because older women are more… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
“Overuse at best is needless clutter; at worst, it creates the impression that the characters are overacting, emoting like silent film stars.… — Howard Mittelmark Copy Share Image
Question the Chestnuts. Chestnuts: the new name for boobs? No. NO. Why would you even say that? Get your mind out of… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
Find something you like, go into a room, close the door and read it aloud. Read it aloud. Everybody in the world… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I won’t do a thing,” I said. “Without you I’m not moving.” Through the front window was another cliché, rain raging while… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Words are like that, they deceive, they pile up, it seems they do not know where to go, and, suddenly, because of… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
