"Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why……" — Jodi Picoult

More Adverb Quotes

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• You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what… — Larry McMurtry
• Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' . . . he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this… — Elmore Leonard
• The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function,… — 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… — Colum McCann
• Words are like that, they deceive, they pile up, it seems they do not know where to go, and, suddenly,… — Jose Saramago
• Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every… — Joseph Heller
• Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark… — Adrienne Rich
• No worries, Atticus. I will snarf surreptitiously. And I should get bacon, because my adverb was two syllables longer than… — 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,… — Dennis Miller
• Actually is far and away the most insulting adverb — Nikhil Saluja

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