What does this man have against quotation marks?

Quotations marks make you stop and spit and he has to ride on.

pointless and clunky

First answer, best answer. Enjoy your job copy-editing ads for j.crew, op.

Makes your book look cool and old of you omit them.

>>8623385
Quotation marks did nothing wrong

>>8623364
He likes reading old drama, and has a fascination with how much of a reading is forced (or even just implied) by the text itself. Punctuation hints at a reading and is therefore cheating.

>>8623728
Why not type in all caps with no periods or commas?

>>8624052
He went as far as he could go and no farther.

All great writers have their own style.

>>8623364
On his deathbed he'll change his mind about punctuation and release a book filled only with quotation marks, commas, semicolons, and exclamation points with annotations to what part of what book each of the punctuation marks go

>>8623364
Cornmac YeTortilla is a gimmicky hack.

>>8623364
McCarthy can get away with it because his characters usually have unique voices in the story, or they are fairly interchangeable. He also uses dialogue tags subtly.

It's a problem when other authors imitate his style and omit the "He said, she said" tags.

>>8623364
It's fucking biblical m8

>>8624843
>It's a problem when other authors imitate his style and omit the "He said, she said" tags.
Like Hemingway?

Quotation marks make dialogue and narration easily distinguishable. That's bad.

you can't hear quotation marks when you read out loud. i guess he likes to give the feeling of someone telling you a story directly

>>8625339
Yes you can. Must people read dialog different than narration.

>>8625290
>hemmmingway
>imitating corncob
yikes
rest in peace

Question marks killed his entire family.