Authors who have eschewed quotation marks include E.L. Doctorow, David Guterson, Charles Frazier, Nadine Gordimer, Kate Grenville, William Gaddis and (sometimes) Raymond Carver.

Quotation marks in flux: Samuel Richardson’s 1748 edition of Clarissa opens quotations with a single inverted comma, places an additional inverted comma at the start of each following line, and ...

Do not place in quotation marks: names of newspapers, magazines, central texts of a religion (Bible, Koran), dictionaries, handbooks and reference books. Names of concertos, operas, overtures, sonatas ...

Rules for Placement of Puncuation Marks with Quotations Periods and commas are always placed inside quotation marks. Ex: In "The Lottery," Tessie Hutchinson protests, "It isn't fair." Exception: In ...

Apostrophe, period, single quotation mark, double quotation mark. It’s a pileup worthy of a drive-time radio traffic report. But it’s right.