Good God Almighty! I wish I could make sweet, sweet love to Lionel Shriver’s WSJ piece about the lack of proper quotation marks in a lot of literary fiction’s dialog. Sing it, Sister! I hate when writer’s don’t use the quotation marks (sorry Junot Diaz). [via]
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I read the piece in awe. I didn’t realize fiction writers were not using quote marks in their works——okay, I don’t read everything. Our magazine stresses the importance of correct punctuation. Like Shriver, I need the quote marks (and other punctuations) to help me cruise through stories without having to stop and think. Omitting these important manuscript landmarks would only get me to toss the book into recyling—I wouldn’t want a potential author to pick up on this bad habit. Let’s hope writers don’t take this unusual writing format to heart.