Adverbs Quote by Annie Dillard

Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not…

— Adrienne Rich

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

— Kingsley Amis

“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

All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They are Article,…

— Joseph Devlin

I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather; you may…

— Stephen King

The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make them bounce,…

— Maya Angelou

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

— Mary Oliver

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

— Maya Angelou

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

Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' . . . he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this way (or almost any…

— Elmore Leonard

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

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