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: What English version of the bible should I quote from? Say I want to quote from the bible in something I'm writing (think the famous passage in Pulp Fiction). What bible version should I quote
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: Is it appropriate to use real-life quotes in fantasy/sci-fi novels set in alternate worlds? Situation: You have an imaginary world, fantasy, sci-fi, whatever, and you are at a point where, as
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: Quote at the beginning of a chapter, is it advisable for fiction novels? I have read a few non-fiction works (mostly scientific) where there is a quote at the beginning of each new chapter.
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: Attributing quotes to fictional characters Let's say, for example, that I want to post my favourite quote from Babylon 5 somewhere: "I'm not saying what I'm saying. I'm not saying what I'm
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: Quoting text from a country with different internationalization I'm writing my doctoral dissertation here in the United States, and quoting some text from an English-language paper written in Germany.
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: Attributing a real quote to a fictional character I've looked at a few fictional character quote questions on here but none seem to hit onto my question: Can I attribute a real quote to a
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: Why end sentences with commas instead of periods when the sentence is in a quote? I've seen styles where writers end sentences with commas if it is inside double quotes and styles where writers
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: Is it appropriate to credit someone with a quote if I am not absolutely sure they are the source? I read a quote a long time ago, but did not know the origin. I want to use it in a paper
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: How to indicate that a single letter was removed from a quotation Suppose a source text says: 1 Timothy 2:4 says that God desires all people to be saved. Now suppose I want to quote
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: Quoting lyrics in a book of film criticism I'm writing a book of film criticism, in which I refer to lyrics from the soundtrack as a way to empathise the narrative. Am I required to obtain
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: As a new poet, where can I find help from a professional to judge my work? I often write short poems and quotes here: https://www.mirakee.com/atd, but I really want to hear from someone professional
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: Quote with attribution, but without saying that I'm quoting I want to give credit to a source without stating their full title again, because the full title is a mouthful. Earlier in the paper,
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: How can I Include a verbatim passage in my fiction without plagiarizing it? In my novel, the MC goes to a resort and at the resort, they offer two types of Buddhist meditations. Those meditations
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: How do I avoid using punctuation inside quotation marks in technical writing? As a computer programmer, I comment my code. For example: The following lines are dependent on "source 1" and
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: Is it okay to quote a saying, even if i don't know who said it? If it is okay to quote then how should i quote it. For example, "Many wealthy people are little more than janitors
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: What did Norman Mailer mean? I read this quote recently, attributed to Norman Mailer, that has had my brain itching: Alimony is the curse of the writing class. What did he mean by it?
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: Should I close this quoted paragraph? I have a paragraph of dialog which technically continues into the next paragraph, but I want to interject a "she continued" almost immediately into the second
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: Changing Capitalization in a Quote - MLA I'm writing an essay (MLA style) for class and I am quoting a whole sentence within my sentence. For example: They published a “manifesto†proclaiming
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: Academic writing: direct quote I have a simple question regarding scientific quotes. Which of the following alternatives is correct? Alt. 1: The literature has made substantial strides towards
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: What would be a good way of electronically organizing my aphorisms? I have been writing aphorisms for the most part of my life. Up to now, I noted them down in (real-life, paper) notebooks.
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: How do I credit a quote if I am uncertain of the source? If I am writing a book and want to use a quote, but I either don't remember who said it or I am uncertain, how should I credit
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: In a professional email you need to quote something from a business document. How do you write this? This is in a professional email. I'm quoting from a business document that was sent to
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: Writing mumbled speech I've got a character that mumbles, and I'd like good advice on how to write his dialogue. He isn't a POV character, and I won't give him too much dialogue that would
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: How similar is too similar? I have used the phrase: "There are not enough words in the tongues of men, elves, dwarves, trolls, goblins, or beasts to describe how disgusting..." in a couple
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: Quote a sentence with references I'm currently writing my bachelor's thesis and I'm using the IEEE citations. Now lets say I want to directly quote the following sentence: The barn was on
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: Properly punctuate a quote I am trying to learn to properly punctuate a quote, for example If I have I said "Let us go" and we left. Do I put a comma before or after the quote?
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: Approach to pop culture quotes in fiction writing I am contemplating writing a fictional character [nerd] who speaks in a pop culture references. I appreciate this question somewhat overlaps Referencing
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: Who pays for lyrics or quotes? Occasionally, novels will include song lyrics in the story, or start out chapters with songs or quotes. In many cases, these lyrics or quotes are from copyrighted
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: How to emphasize a quote is written, not spoken? In a similar question on EL&U, I asked about suggestions for indicating that a quote is written instead of spoken. Robusto's answer suggested
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: Should this introductory quotation be translated, untranslated, or dropped? When I first wrote "Gawain's Guilt-Girdle" (14 lines of verse) I introduced it with a short (modernized/translated) quotation
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: Spacing for quotes within quotes Character A is quoting characters B and C. Since character A is talking their words are enclosed in double quotes. Their rendition of characters B and C's
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: Correct punctuation for he said, she said It was recently suggested to me that when attributing dialogue after a quote it should always end comma close quote lowercase, as in: "That's what,"
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: First page of the Diary - Quote am gifting some one a diary I want to write something meaningful in the first page of it. All I could come up with is... In the most ammaaazing journey that
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: Do I need to cite quotes when conversing casually with friends? If I'm speaking casually with a friend and quote something I heard, do I need to cite the source of that quote/saying? Ex. "After
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: How can I include my own words within the quotation? How can I include my own words (of an extra information) within the quotation? Can I do it in the following way, with the words in bracket
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: How should a narrative parenthetical remark be placed in reference to a dialog quotation? I’m wondering how to place a narrative parenthetical remark in dialog. I’m proofreading a book with
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: "Quote" within a quote MLA So I have a quote that has double quotation marks inside it. Would I leave those in? Or replace them with single quotes? In Carolyn Gregoire’s article “What
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: Using a pronoun outside of quotations to refer to a person mentioned in quotations who hasn't been introduced yet Would the line: "Peter!" cried his father. make grammatical sense? It seems
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: Citing and typos I am holding a book (novel) which I wish to cite, and I believe it has a typo. I do not know whether the typo was a spelling mistake in the original manuscript, or introduced
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: Starting from future smoothing your way to present Ok, so the hook for my novel is a quote from the future that my protagonist will eventually say. But I need a way for my novel to go back
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