Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances

Robert E. Lee
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In her book, "The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century," Susannah Locke includes a chapter on how to use quotations. She suggests that you should "read history, works of truth, not novels and romances." (p. 165) Locke says that quoting books is fine, but that you should quote only if the text is part of a larger work that has some meaning beyond itself. You might say something like "I found this passage in the book 'The Great Gatsby,' by F. Scott Fitzgerald." (Locke, 2003)

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