Whatever rocks your art. Being especially careful with adverbs and adjectives is common practice among experienced writers. More examples: “Adjectives are freq

Whatever rocks your art. Being especially careful with adverbs and adjectives is common practice among experienced writers. More examples: “Adjectives are frequently the greatest enemy of the substantive.” – Voltaire “[I was taught] to distrust adjectives as I would later learn to distrust certain people in certain situations.” – Ernest Hemingway “The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.” – Clifton Paul Fadiman “[The adjective] is the one part of speech first seized upon and worked to death by novices and inferior writers.” – J.I. Rodale “Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.” – Ezra Pound “The adjective has not been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.” – E.B. White “[Whoever writes in English] is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective.” – George Orwell “Most adjectives are also unnecessary. Like adverbs, they are sprinkled into sentences by writers who don’t stop to think that the concept is already in the noun.” – William Zissner