“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
“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
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
I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. — Stephen King 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 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' . . . he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this way (or… — Elmore Leonard 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
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
