“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 was paved with the bones of men who did not know when to quit fighting.”
— Paulette Jiles, book Enemy Women
Source: Enemy Women
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