Ardor Quote by H. L. Mencken

I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.

— John Clare

I need to know everything inside quote marks is true.

— Mitchell Zuckoff

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

— Masha Tupitsyn

A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole.

— Ayn Rand

Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!

— James Joyce

All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed.

— Anonymous

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If colons and semicolons give themselves airs and graces, at least they also confer airs and graces that the language would be lost without.”

— Lynne Truss

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

Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them.

— Gary Saul Morson

“it should be quotations”

— Timothy Ware

I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning.

— Masha Tupitsyn