Adverbs Quotes

26 quotes by 21 authors

To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the… — Maya Angelou
The road to hell is paved with adverbs. — Stephen King
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
Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because it… — Anton Chekhov
Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' . . . he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this way (or almost any way)… — Elmore Leonard
Adverbs are a sign that you've used the wrong verb. — Annie Dillard
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
I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. — Stephen King
Iâ€™m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather; you may feel… — Stephen King
A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb. — Bill Gaede
God loveth adverbs; and cares not how good, but how well. — Joseph Hall
The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done. — Daniel Handler
Using adverbs is a mortal sin. — Elmore Leonard
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
I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect. — Henry James
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
Don Basilio was a forbidding-looking man with a bushy mustache who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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
It is not the diamonds or the birds, the people or the potatoes; it is not any of the nouns. The miracle is the adverbs,… — Daniel Handler

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