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Originally Posted by Jellby
If the writer didn't use quotes, maybe that's what he wanted.
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Yes, it's a perfectly legitimate decision by an author not to use quotes. William Morris, for instance, didn't use quotes in "The Wood Beyond the World" (even if later editions added them), but I've seen this by other authors, too. If the text is difficult to read without quotes, maybe the author wanted it to be difficult to read. You can only guess at the author's intentions, of course, but there
is a life without quotation marks -- classic Latin and Greek didn't have them either, for instance, and this didn't keep them from writing great literature.