Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can.

Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because…

— Anton Chekhov

I've really tried to strip my writing of as many adjectives and adverbs as I possibly can.

— Erik Larson

Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents.

— Mary Oliver

The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

— Ernest Hemingway

All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak words. They…

— Maya Angelou

A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb.

— Bill Gaede

To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against…

— Maya Angelou

Words are like that, they deceive, they pile up, it seems they do not know where to go, and, suddenly, because of two or…

— Jose Saramago

Don Basilio was a forbidding-looking man with a bushy mustache who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something…

— Larry McMurtry

Empty your knapsack of all adjectives, adverbs and clauses that slo your stride and weaken your pace. Travel light. Remember the most memorable sentences…

— Bill Moyers

Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.

— Henry James

Probably the best way to describe my writing style is to refer you to "purple prose", which was a tag given to the early…

— Tom Johnson

The question that arises as we use all these adjectives and adverbs to describe our physicians as we approach a Supreme Court nominee is…

— Tom Coburn

I think the best way to put it is that newspictures are the noun and the verb; our kind of photography is the adjective…

— Roy Stryker