Todd Rundgren

State' can be a word that is a noun or a verb or an adverb - it's kind of why I chose that title. It's not to confound the audience but to keep me from painting myself into a cul-de-sac in the early stages of making a record by having too high concept or having some really strict set of rules I have to adhere to.

American Musician

Tracy Chevalier

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.

American Novelist

Maya Angelou

To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.

American Poet

Ethan Canin

You have to look at the value of different kinds of words. Adjectives weaken, and adverbs come even farther down the line. Verbs are strong; verbs and nouns.

American Author

Faith Salie

Adverbs, we know, are meant to modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. They help us understand things more clearly, more vividly, more... morely.

American Journalist

Alice Oswald

Wind ought to be a verb or an adverb. It isn't really anything. It's a manner of movement of warmth and cold: a kind of information system of the air.

British Poet

Douglas Brunt

Adverbs lead to overwriting. Try taking them out and reading your prose again to see how it sounds. Simple and less words are more powerful.

Erik Larson

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

Henry James

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

American Writer

Sam Shepard

American Playwright

Adverbs can be placed at the beginning, middle, or end of a sentence, affecting emphasis and flow.

Position Matters

Use adverbs to emphasize or intensify the action or feeling that a verb, adjective, or another adverb conveys.

Enhancing Meaning

Some adverbs may carry different connotations or implications in various cultural contexts.

Cultural Nuances

 Also keep it short. People tend to speak in short bursts, not lengthy speeches. And let the dialogue do the work. Ask do I really need that adverb? For instance, "'Your money or your life,' she said threateningly."

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 You have to act compassionately. There is no verb for compassion, but you have an adverb for compassion.

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Position Matters

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