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

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 confident, or…

— Tracy Chevalier

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

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

— Maya Angelou

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

“Her name was Penny, and she was good looking. She wasn’t a dime, but she wasn’t a nickel either. If there were a coin…

— Jarod Kintz

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

— Loretta Lynn

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into…

— Scott Westerfeld

“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

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

— daniel handler

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 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

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

— Stephen King

Using adverbs is a mortal sin.

— Elmore Leonard

“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