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  • Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.

    Henry James (2016). “Henry James: Autobiographies: A Small Boy and Others / Notes of a Son and Brother / The Middle Years / Other Writings: Library of America #274”, p.1142, Library of America
  • The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

    Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.37, Hamilton Books
  • Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents.

    Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.90, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The question that arises as we use all these adjectives and adverbs to describe our physicians as we approach a Supreme Court nominee is where are we in America when we decide that it's legal to kill our unborn children?

    U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.
  • I have no policy, for or against: only a personal style. Which is to say, I use them when I think it's appropriate to; for example, an internal monologue by a locquacious and verbose narrator is more likely to be larded with adverbs than an exchange of instant messages between cops at a crime scene.

  • The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

    FaceBook post by Stephen King from Feb 06, 2013
  • Adverbs are a sign that you've used the wrong verb.

    Writing   Verbs   Used  
  • Question the Chestnuts. Chestnuts: the new name for boobs? No. NO. Why would you even say that? Get your mind out of the gutter. No, by "chestnuts" I mean, "those old pieces of writing advice that you hear as common refrain." 'Write what you know.' 'Adverbs give Baby Jesus hemorrhoids.' 'If you write a prologue, an orphan loses his sight.' All the "old saws" need to be put on the chopping block.

    Baby   Jesus   Block  
  • The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make them bounce, turn them a certain way and make people get into a romantic mood; and another way, into a bellicose mood. I'm most happy to be a writer.

    People   Together   Nouns  
  • The Hebrews have a saying that God is more delighted in adverbs than in nouns; it is not so much the matter that is done, but the matter how it is done, that God minds. Not how much, but how well! It is the well-doing that meets with a well-done. Let us therefore serve God, not nominally or verbally, but adverbially.

    Mind   Done   Nouns  
  • Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious of the unslept unsleeping elsewhere Tonight I think no poetry will serve Syntax of rendition: verb pilots the plane adverb modifies action verb force-feeds noun submerges the subject noun is choking verb disgraced goes on doing now diagram the sentence

    Sleep   Dark   Thinking  
    Adrienne Rich (2011). “Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010: Poems 2007–2010”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company
  • No worries, Atticus. I will snarf surreptitiously. And I should get bacon, because my adverb was two syllables longer than yours, plus a bonus for alliteration." I grinned. "It's a deal. You're the best hound ever.

    Two   Worry   Bonus  
    Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.911, Del Rey
  • I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference; it can never give me a pang. There are subtleties which I cannot master at all - they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me - and this adverb plague is one of them.

    Mean   Giving   Frozen  
  • I think the best way to put it is that newspictures are the noun and the verb; our kind of photography is the adjective and adverb. The newspicture is a single frame; ours, a subject viewed in series. The newspicture is dramatic, all subject and action. Ours shows what's back of the action.

  • Someone can break your heart, leave you dead on the lawn, and still you never learn what to say to stop it all over again.

    Heart   Break   Lawns  
  • There's enough adverbs in the world for you to start creating new ones.

    Creating   World   Enough  
  • The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

    1979 In the NewYorkTimes Book Review,15 Jul.
  • Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.

    Wonder   Adverbs   Frank  
    Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.117, Simon and Schuster
  • The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

    Statement on April 14, 1775. "Life of Samuel Johnson". Book by James Boswell. Volume II, 1791.
  • The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes

  • Find something you like, go into a room, close the door and read it aloud. Read it aloud. Everybody in the world who likes dance can see dance, or hear music, or see art, or admire architecture - but everybody in the world uses words who is not a recluse or mute. But the writer has to take these most common things, more common than musical notes or dance positions, a writer has to take some adverbs, and verbs and nouns and ball them up together and make them bounce.

    Art   Doors   Musical  
    Source: www.psychologytoday.com
  • I get imaginative with a mouth full of adjectives, A brain full of adverbs, and a box full of laxatives, Shittin' on rappers, causin' hospital accidents.

    Rap   Hip Hop   Brain  
    Song: Still Don't Give a Fuck
  • The words I overuse are all adverbs.

    Adverbs  
    Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2014.
  • I don't really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don't know what character is, really. Plot seems vaguely juvenile to me. It's all about language, it's all about how you apply it to the page.

    Character   Rude   Sound  
    "Colum McCann: a life in writing" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2013.
  • All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak words. They say, "How are you" or "I'm not feeling well" all over the world. These common words - these common elements that we have between us - the writer has to take some verbs and nouns and pronouns and adjectives and adverbs and arrange them in a way that sound fresh.

    People   Feelings   Sound  
    Source: www.washingtoncitypaper.com
  • It is not the diamonds or the birds, the people or the potatoes, it is not any of the nouns. The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done. It is the way love gets done despite every catastrophe.

    People   Bird   Miracle  
    "Adverbs". Book by Daniel Handler, June 5, 2006.
  • A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb.

  • Don Basilio was a forbidding-looking man with a bushy mustache who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use of adverbs and adjectives was the mark of a pervert or someone with a vitamin deficiency.

  • I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

  • All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine.

    Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.122, Simon and Schuster
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