“When you catch an adjective, kill it.”
Mark Twain
more infosource: letter to David Watt Bowser, 20 March 1880; Twain letters searchable here via the Mark Twain Project
category: adjective, creative process, writing
medium: Letter
via: Austin Kleon“I need an adjective.”
Leonard B. Stern
more infosource: Mad Libs was first conceived in 1953, when Stern was writing a script for The Honeymooners and needed an adjective: “Leonard B. Stern, Creator of Mad Libs, Dies at 88,” by Margalit Fox, The New York Times, June 9, 2011.
category: adjective, grammar, Mad Libs, publishing, word game
medium: Obituary
“I have become an adjective. There is something called a ‘Rovian’ style of campaigning, and it’s meant as an insult.”
Karl Rove
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