President Obama asked Congress to “try common sense.”

She smiled and said, “Son, this is one incident that I will never forget.”

Use quotation marks to enclose the words of each speaker within running dialogue. Mark each shift in speaker with a new paragraph.

“I want no proof of their affection,” said Elinor; “but of their engagement I do.”

“I am perfectly satisfied of both.”

“Yet not a syllable has been said to you on the subject, by either of them.”

–Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

Single quotation marks

Single quotation marks enclose a quotation within a quotation. Open and close the quoted passage with double quotation marks, and change any quotation marks that appear within the quotation to single quotation marks.

Baldwin says, “The title ‘The Uses of the Blues’ does not refer to music; I don’t know anything about music.”