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Lyn Alden · 8w
You know what would be crazy? Just deciding to skip punctuation. Cormac McCarthy, the bestselling and Pulitzer-winning author of books like No Country For Old Men, The Road, and Blood Meridian, famou...
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I kinda agree with him on quotation marks. My KJV Bibles don't use them - the capitals and comments around the quotes are plenty to show what's happening. Of course the red letter sections are clear for that reason too.
In a novel with more dialogue, they do sometimes help make it clearer, but then sometimes it's hard to keep track of who's saying what. I sometimes go back and count statements when it starts to not make sense.