A Matter of Style - End Quotes Missing

[justcarol67]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Bamajenny" <BamaJenny12 at y...>
wrote:
> I don't know how valid it is NOW, but back in the dark ages
> when I took creative writing, we were taught to use quotation
> marks this way. The opening quotation mark came when a person
> began speaking (obviously), but the end quotation did not come
> until that person was completely finished speaking. If paragraphs
> were necessary because of the subject, then quotations to start
> the paragraph showed that it was still the same person speaking.
> Once that person stopped speaking, the ending quotation marks
> were added. 
> Jenny
>  

Carol responds:
Exactly. An "end quote" (ending quotation mark) signals the end of the
quotation. If the end quote is missing, the quotation hasn't ended.
The same person is still speaking.

Pretty logical, actually. And speaking as a copyeditor, I can tell you
that the rule is still very much in effect.

Carol, who still can't believe that "fug" is a real word and was
bothered by an absent "from" in a sentence about Susan Bones