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Adverbs Quotes

Using adverbs is a mortal sin.

"Elmore Leonard's rules for writers" by Elmore Leonard, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2010.

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

Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.

Edward St Aubyn (2016). “The Patrick Melrose Novels: Picador Classic”, p.190, Pan Macmillan

The words I overuse are all adverbs.

Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2014.

Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.

Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.117, Simon and Schuster