My/Pref/Writing/Adverb/Suspicion/Discussion

• Selected Anti-Adverb quotes

  • Person/Mark Twain/Quote/Dead to Adverbs

    • "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... I cannot learn adverbs; and what is more I won't."
      

      • —Person/Mark Twain, in Reply to a Boston Girl
  • Person/Stephen King/Quote/Adverbs Pave the Road to Hell

    • "I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops."
      

      • —Person/Stephen King, in Person/Stephen King/Book/00/On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
  • Person/Stephen King/Quote/Adverbs Suit Timid Writers

    • "Adverbs, like the passive voice, seem to have been created with the timid writer in mind. … With adverbs, the writer usually tells us he or she is afraid he/she isn't expressing himself/herself clearly..."
      

      • —Person/Stephen King, in Person/Stephen King/Book/00/On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
  • Person/William Zinsser/Quote/Strong Verbs Need No Adverbs

    • "Most adverbs are unnecessary… Again and again, in careless writing, strong verbs are weakened by redundant adverbs."
      

      • —Person/William Zinsser, in Person/William Zinsser/Book/76/On Writing Well