Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb. — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.” ― Stephen King, On Writing” — Cindy Little Copy Share Image
I'am not who you want to be, but I'm who you can't be, Respect yourself and everybody respect you. — MedMed Copy Share Image
Empty your knapsack of all adjectives, adverbs and clauses that slo your stride and weaken your pace. Travel light. Remember the most… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. Its always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact its… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
The question that arises as we use all these adjectives and adverbs to describe our physicians as we approach a Supreme Court… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
I don't really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don't know what character is, really.… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' . . . he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this way (or… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have no policy, for or against: only a personal style. Which is to say, I use them when I think it's… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“There was a noise above us like an airplane zoom, but it was getting too dark to see. People started laying on… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The Hebrews have a saying that God is more delighted in adverbs than in nouns; it is not so much the matter… — Ralph Venning Copy Share Image
Probably the best way to describe my writing style is to refer you to "purple prose", which was a tag given to… — Tom Johnson Copy Share Image
