Dear Cormac McCarthy,

It seems that while writing No Country For Old Men, you may have misplaced all of your quotation marks. Here, have some of mine.

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Feel free to use liberally. I have more if you need them. General rules say to use them to bracket characters’ conversation to set off speech from the rest of the story. If you need any more pointers in this area, I’d be glad to help you out. Thanks!

Your Reader,

Jacki

(I posted a similar letter to Junot Diaz while reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Maybe eventually these guys will get the picture.)

This entry was written by Jacki, posted on January 5, 2011 at 8:53 am, filed under Thoughts and tagged cormac mccarthy. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

2 Comments

Marce

Posted January 5, 2011 at 3:56 pm | Permalink

lmao I love venting posts like this.
christa @ mental foodie

Posted January 6, 2011 at 12:37 am | Permalink

hahaha, I AM reading a book without quotation marks and I’m thinking the EXACT same thing!! I haven’t read No Country For Old Men, but read The Road… and it bugged me back then and it was over 2 years ago…

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