Adverbs are cholesterol in the veins of prose.

“Adverbs are cholesterol in the veins of prose. Halve your adverbs and your prose pumps twice as well.”

— David Mitchell

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

“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every long word…

— William Zinsser

“Overuse at best is needless clutter; at worst, it creates the impression that the characters are overacting, emoting like silent film stars. Still, an…

— Howard Mittelmark

I have no policy, for or against: only a personal style. Which is to say, I use them when I think it's appropriate to;…

— Charles Stross

“There was a noise above us like an airplane zoom, but it was getting too dark to see. People started laying on the horn,…

— Daniel Handler

Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling me that…

— Daniel Handler

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

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

— Stephen King

If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.

— Kingsley Amis

“All the deaths are dead for nothing but you're not dead at all.”

— daniel handler

Using adverbs is a mortal sin.

— Elmore Leonard

I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen…

— Mark Twain

I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.

— Stephen King

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