Hyphens Quote by Eric Partridge

Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'

— William Safire

I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration…

— Catherine Brady

One thing that drives me nuts... well, let me ask you, when writers write do they not use quotation marks anymore?

— John Grisham

When I decided to stop using quotation marks, it presented technical challenges: you have to conceive of dialogue differently and structure it differently for…

— Catherine Brady

Using quotations was at first quite spontaneous for me, but then this use became strengthened through reflection. But originally this practice came out of…

— Susan Sontag

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 instance, all…

— Paul Auster

Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!

— James Joyce

Quotes are like prompts. A way of searching, connecting the dots.

— Masha Tupitsyn

Saying a quotes is easier than doing them

— Tarek Soloman

a few italics really do relieve your feelings.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving...

— William Francis Henry King

Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.

— Lynne Truss