Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks. — Paul Eldridge Copy Share Image
Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
“To free "God" from his quotation marks would require nothing less than to free him from metaphysics, hence from the Being of… — Jean-Luc Marion Copy Share Image
There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Kyle stepped into Cole’s chest, and he wrapped his arms around her. They fit together like two quotation marks.” — Debra Anastasia Copy Share Image
Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“The two of us snuggled like quotation marks in his room full of words.” — Michelle Hodkin Copy Share Image
“To mention Boston we use 'Boston' or a synonym, and to mention 'Boston' we use ' 'Boston' ' or a synonym. '… — W.V. Quine Copy Share Image
“Novels are nice,' my friend said. 'They stop.' He waggled his fingers to make quotation marks in the air. 'They say, 'The… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
“There is no fiercer enemy than a word. A word that can be written down in pages and punctuated by quotation marks… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Most of all I like "bad" lines, that is those considered bad, in my opinion unjustly, by theory. The reason for the… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
“I'm sitting opposite you in the bar, waiting for you to uncross your boundaries. I want to rip off your logic and… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know people are really interested in everything that the celebrities are doing, even if you don't consider yourself a "celebrity." What… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
I took ethics classes in college, and it always amazes me how they [tabloids] will blatantly say something that I did not… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
“When speaking aloud, you punctuate constantly — with body language. Your listener hears commas, dashes, question marks, exclamation points, quotation marks as… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
“And I promise myself then, in that moment, that I will hold him forever, just like this, until all the pain and… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
For me, it's a way to find a fiction within a fiction. To find a way to uncover that blunder within the… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
1 - 2 If I see an ending, I can work backward. Arthur Miller In the theater, while you recognized that you… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“And then another book, never read, long forgotten, catches his eye. The jacket is missing, the title on the spine practically faded.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You’re saying your mother engaged in unprotected sex outside her primary relationship?’ ‘With some other student,’ replied Rosie. ‘While she was dating… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
“Let us being again. To take some examples: why should “literature” still designate that which already breaks away from literature—away from what… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“Do you remember what we just did? Please tell me you remember what we just did." She briefly toyed with the idea… — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
“I twisted my arm to curl him behind me and he unfolded there, the two of us snuggled like quotation marks in… — Michelle Hodkin Copy Share Image
“There's a fine line between funny and annoying – and it's exactly the width of a quotation mark.” — Martha Brockenbrough Copy Share Image
We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks. — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact. — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
A lot of Christmas episodes feel like stories in quotation marks. Uh, a homeless guy comes to live with them and they… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation… — Michael Steele Copy Share Image
One thing that drives me nuts... well, let me ask you, when writers write do they not use quotation marks anymore? — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Like italics and hyphens, quotation marks are to be used as sparingly as possible. They should light the way, not darken it. — Eric Partridge Copy Share Image
I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I don't want to use quotation marks anymore, I've gone back and forth with them. In Ghosts, I didn't use them, for… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
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