: Re: Punctuating Thoughts Following my question here I am still unsure if it is a 'hard and fast' rule to italicise thoughts. My preference is to use normal quotation marks, so that if a person

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Seems to me that in the majority of books I've read, a character's thought are in normal type, with no quotation marks. Like:

"Hey, where are you going?", the guard demanded.
They've caught me, John thought. "Me, I'm just talking a walk," he bluffed.

Etc.
I think I've occasionally seen thoughts in italics, but that's pretty rare. They do not go in quotes.

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