What has been changed is the destructiveness of war.”ģ. That was true before the atomic bomb was made. “That is not an attempt to say when it will come,but only that it is sure to come. As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable. “One could say that it has affected us quantitatively, not qualitatively. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. “The release of atomic energy has not created anew problem. In “Atomic War or Peace,” Albert Einstein wrote: Long-winded quotes: When you break a long quote into separate paragraphs, put closing quote marks only on the last paragraph. One man, one quote: Do not use more than one attribution for the same quote.Ģ. Given that premise, these rules prevail in this course, at most publications and for most good writing.ġ. And because they deserve special attention, they deserve careful handling by reporters and editors. Many of the rules that follow are based on the premise that quotes should be carefully selected to stand on their hind legs and sing. When we put those little marks around words in a story, we are telling the reader that the words are special, that they deserve special attention. An assigning editor's comments that a story needs some quotes is a complaint about inadequate reporting, not a cry for typographic relief.