“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
Stephen King (1947) American author
Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
Stephen King (1947) American author
Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.”
Philip Roth (1933–2018) American novelist
As quoted in "Works in Progress" in The New York Times Book Review (15 July 1979), page BR1
“The road to hell is paved with unbought stuffed animals”
Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises
Variant: All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.
Source: The Sun Also Rises (1926)
“Hell, any plan that added "and then we pray" is not a trip to Disneyland.”
Jessica Bird book Lover Revealed
Source: Lover Revealed
“If I was on the road to Hell, at least I was going in style.”
Jim Butcher book Changes
Source: Changes
“Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.”
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
[1992Jul2.222039.26476@netlabs.com, 1992]
Usenet postings, 1992