Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'

I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact.

— Andrew Marr

We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either…

— Rachael Ray

I took ethics classes in college, and it always amazes me how they [tabloids] will blatantly say something that I did not say, in…

— Carrie Underwood

Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!

— James Joyce

Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.

— H. L. Mencken

Most of all I like "bad" lines, that is those considered bad, in my opinion unjustly, by theory. The reason for the last quotation…

— Bent Larsen

There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

— Joseph Campbell

In the museums, everything is in quotation marks.

— Mason Cooley

On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the $50 price),…

— William Safire

Try scrolling through a regular teenager's Facebook or Instagram posts, everything is captioned with borrowed words or lyrics from songs, without any filters whatsoever…

— Shweta Bachchan Nanda

“And I promise myself then, in that moment, that I will hold him forever, just like this, until all the pain and torture and…

— Tahereh Mafi

“I'm sitting opposite you in the bar, waiting for you to uncross your boundaries. I want to rip off your logic and make passionate…

— Jeffrey McDaniel

1 - 2 If I see an ending, I can work backward. Arthur Miller In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking…

— Arthur Miller

“Novels are nice,' my friend said. 'They stop.' He waggled his fingers to make quotation marks in the air. 'They say, 'The End.' Very…

— Philip Gourevitch

“There is no fiercer enemy than a word. A word that can be written down in pages and punctuated by quotation marks and commas…

— Alice Hoffman