Adjectives Quote by Erik Larson

The words I overuse are all adverbs.

— Sam Shepard

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

— Dick Schaap

When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

— Mark Twain

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

— Ernest Gaines

I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way…

— Mark Twain

I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew…

— Peter De Vries

My writing tends to become very dense, so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes, words that seem superfluous are actually essential for the…

— Gretchen Rubin

When you catch an adjective, kill it.

— Mark Twain

I've got an adjective that just fits you.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'm proud of the two adjectives, superficial and frivolous.

— Jeanloup Sieff

I want to verb your nouns adjectively.

— Nikhil Saluja

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

— Anne Enright