Adverbs Quote by Stephen King

The Hebrews have a saying that God is more delighted in adverbs than in nouns; it is not so much the matter that is…

— Ralph Venning

I am such a person of words. I've spent so much of my life trying to get it right, say it right, say it…

— Frederick Buechner

The words I overuse are all adverbs.

— Sam Shepard

I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.

— Don Henley

“Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write, you can tell if you’ve said…

— Muriel Barbery

“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every long word…

— William Zinsser

“Adverbs are cholesterol in the veins of prose. Halve your adverbs and your prose pumps twice as well.”

— David Mitchell

I've really tried to strip my writing of as many adjectives and adverbs as I possibly can.

— Erik Larson

“To write is human, to receive a letter: Divine!”

— Susan Lendroth

I think that I speak a lot like I write.

— Max Lucado

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

— E. B. White

I like how I write better than how I speak.

— Henry Rollins