Adverb Quotes

13 quotes by 13 authors

You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple,… — Larry McMurtry
Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' . . . he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this way (or almost any way)… — Elmore Leonard
The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function, every long word that could… — William Zinsser
A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb. — Bill Gaede
I don't really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don't know what character is, really. Plot seems vaguely… — Colum McCann
Words are like that, they deceive, they pile up, it seems they do not know where to go, and, suddenly, because of two or three… — Jose Saramago
Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself. — Jodi Picoult
Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective. — Joseph Heller
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 oblivious… — Adrienne Rich
No worries, Atticus. I will snarf surreptitiously. And I should get bacon, because my adverb was two syllables longer than yours, plus a bonus for… — Kevin Hearne
Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument. — Edward St Aubyn
I've always loved the flirtatious tango of consonants and vowels, the sturdy dependability of nouns and capricious whimsy of verbs, the strutting pageantry of the… — Dennis Miller
Actually is far and away the most insulting adverb — Nikhil Saluja

Who Wrote These Adverb Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 13 Adverb Quotes as follows: