: 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

It's up to you

I personally like to treat thoughts the same as spoken speech, since they are in a different "voice" from the narratorâ€™s.
For me, itâ€™s not a question of whatâ€™s spoken out loud, but a way of identify whose perspective is represented by those words.

If there are no quotation marks the perspective is assumed to be the narratorâ€™s, and thatâ€™s the wrong interpretation.

You wonâ€™t be wrong, as long as youâ€™re consistent and the writing isn't confusing.

I prefer to avoid italics, since they have yet another pre-existing meaning, but it can be helpful if you find it necessary to distinguish strongly between spoken and thought words.

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