"The adverb is not your friend. [They] are words that modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. They're the ones that usually end in -ly. 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, that he or she is not getting the point or the picture across... I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops."
-Stephen King, On Writing
(A sign outside Lucy Maud Montgomery's home in PEI)
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