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Adverbs and cops always come in pairs. -- Gary Reilly
All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They are Article, Noun, Adjective, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction and Interjection. -- Joseph Devlin
Using adverbs is a mortal sin. -- Elmore Leonard
The words I overuse are all adverbs. -- Sam Shepard
The road to hell is paved with adverbs. -- Stephen King
Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument. -- Edward St Aubyn
Adverbs are a sign that you've used the wrong verb. -- Annie Dillard
Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt. -- Henry James
If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong. -- Kingsley Amis
I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect. -- Henry James
There's enough adverbs in the world for you to start creating new ones. -- Christopher Owens
Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents. -- Mary Oliver
I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. -- Stephen King
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 and sly. -- Eleanor Catton
Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling me that it's actually quite dark. -- Daniel Handler
Empty your knapsack of all adjectives, adverbs and clauses that slo your stride and weaken your pace. Travel light. Remember the most memorable sentences in the English language are also the shortest: "The King is dead" and "Jesus wept." -- Bill Moyers
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. -- Colum McCann
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. -- Maya Angelou
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two. -- Larry McMurtry
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. -- Roy Stryker
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. -- Charles Stross
Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's because older women are more confident, or just that we don't care any more. But that pared-down approach is the same with the sentences I write; I take out adjectives and adverbs and keep the description to a minimum. -- Tracy Chevalier
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. -- Mark Twain
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. -- Ralph Venning
Probably the best way to describe my writing style is to refer you to "purple prose", which was a tag given to the early mass market magazine writers earning a half cent a word for their fiction. They had to use every adjective, verb and adverb in the English language to add word count to stories in order to feed and support families. -- Tom Johnson
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. -- Eminem
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. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done. -- Daniel Handler
God loveth adverbs; and cares not how good, but how well. -- Joseph Hall
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

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