[mea] Re: Quotation mark usage
- From: Clayton Bye <ccbye@xxxxxxx>
- To: mea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:29:30 -0500
On 17/04/2012 6:14 PM, Kirby Gilman wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm editing a memoir. One chapter is a page long and is all one
speaker talking. It's split up into six paragraphs, with no-lead ins
to who is speaking (always the same guy and it seems to work).
When are quotation marks used? Just one at the beginning of the
chapter and one at the end? A new quotation mark at the start of each
paragraph, but not one at the end of the paragraphs (except for the
last paragraph)? A quotation mark at the beginning and end of each
paragraph?
Hope this isn't too confusing,
Kirby
There are many Schools of thought, Kirby. The most important thing you
can do is be consistent in whatever you choose.
For the full page, I would suggest a quotation when he begins speaking
and one at the end of the six paragraphs. As for an entire chapter? Same
thing, unless... Is this self-talk or is the guy actually speaking out
loud. I ask, because one does not use quotations if he's just listening
to the guy's thoughts. Understood?
Clayton
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