Adjectives Quote by William Zinsser

Eschew all those beastly adjectives...

— Roald Dahl

“Pretty Words" Poets make pets of pretty, docile words: I love smooth words, like gold-enamelled fish Which circle slowly with a silken swish, And…

— Elinor Wylie

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

— Dick Schaap

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

— Erik Larson

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

“Words become sentences, twisted, difficult/The story weaves itself, always noisiest at night/As herds of words won't stop. . . " Wildebeest of Words/Breathe In”

— Eileen Granfors

Words become sentences, twisted, difficult/The story weaves itself, always noisiest at night/As herds of words won't stop. .

— Ritu Ghatourey

We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences.

— Josh Billings

People have only two or three adjectives to describe people in the public eye. And that's okay. As long as those adjectives aren't train…

— Taylor Swift

Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force.

— Henry Watson Fowler

“Adjectives not susceptible to modifiers are: certain, complete, devoid, empty, entire, essential, everlasting, excellent, external, fatal, final, fundamental, harmless, ideal, immaculate, immortal, impossible, incessant,…

— Harold Evans

I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind.

— Roy Blount, Jr