What are direct quotes?

Question

for a research paper on an author my teacher is asking for at least four direct quotes, however, i donno what she means by this. are direct quotes quotes that the author spoke at one point of thier lifes or can it be a quote out of a autobiography book or something along that???

Hmmmm....coulda help me out please?

Answer 1

direct quotes is what a person (character) said.  Something that is qoutation marks already in the book.

Indirect quotes are what the author said.  Usually not in qoutations because it is narrative.   Which means that the author is speaking, but it is not in qoutations cuz she/he is the one who wrote the book.   It would be pretty funny, if the author wrote everything she/he described about (setting, etc) in qoutations, ....everything (the whole book) would be in qoutations.

Answer 2

A direct quote is taking "word for word" what that person or person said and repeating it.

example of this would be - quoting you - "for a research paper on an author my teacher is asking for at least four direct quotes, however, i donno what she means by this.". (that is a direct quote)

It is a quote that a person said. You are powerphrasing, or putting it in your own words. It's exactly what that person said.

Yes, it can be an author that spoke at one point of their life.

Hope this helps :)

Sorry for erasing this answer like 2 seconds ago, i did not want it on that account. I thought i was using this one

Answer 3

direct quotes are exactly what the source stated