: Re: What punctuation to use when a character is writing something down? I'm trying my hand at editing a friends work, and I've got a little stumped. They wrote the following: 'Thinks he's the smartest

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It's usually just a matter of style. I'd use italics, but it honestly doesn't matter (but you shouldn't use single quotation marks like that in the US, that's normally done in Britain).
One example I have is with thoughts. Some use italics, some use quotes, and some write it like:

I hate this, thought Bob.

It's all just a matter of style.

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