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Originally Posted by Jellby
Then "most books" are wrong, as far as I know. Have you checked actual printed books from respectable publishers?
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not sure if we still own any of those
I think that in "most books" that I read, the characters only speak for single paragraphs - Maybe I should get my "reading age" seen to
I do notice when there is is no close quote.
I am currently re-reading Game of Thrones series, but a quick random epub check did not turn up any two-paragraph speeches.
So, turning to Anne Rice (epub)- now there's an author whose characters can filibuster for pages at a time...
Interview with the vampire is pretty much all written as speech, in which the lead character also recounts conversations with others, so it's a rats nest of embedded punctuation. She does leaves off closing quotes on all but a final paragraph.