Adjectives Quote by James Russell Lowell

“Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of “character” or that kind of “character,” and readers pretend to talk knowingly about “character,”…

— Sōseki Natsume

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

— Sherwood Anderson

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

— Stephen King

“They've a temper, some of them--particularly verbs: they're the proudest--adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs--however I can manage the whole lot…

— Lewis Carroll

Style matters, but the real force of writing is ideas, not style.

— Douglas Brunt

They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs...

— Lewis Carroll

“If I loved him, would I censor my writing to please him? If I married him, would I force my writing to be married…

— Erica Jong

Virtually every beginning poet hurts himself by an addiction to adjectives. Verbs are by far the most important things for poems-especially wonderful tough monosyllables…

— Donald Hall

I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. Its always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact its so supple…

— Eleanor Catton

I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corporation, or some dangler, who…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

— Clifton Fadiman

I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes…

— Brian P. Cleary

Each part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance.

— Denise Levertov