Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

When formatting several paragraphs which are quoting someone, you don't do beginning quotes at the beginning of each paragraph and ending quotes at the end of each paragraph, do you? Don't you just start the first paragraph with a quotation mark and end the last paragraph with an end quote?

In other words, which is correct?

#1 -

Joanne said, "Blablabla and blah blahblah. Blablabla and blah blahblah. Blablabla and blah blahblah. Blablabla and blah blahblah. Blablabla and blah blahblah.

Blablabla and blah blahblah. Blablabla and blah blahblah. Blablabla and blah blahblah. Blablabla and blah blahblah. Blablabla and blah blahblah. "

OR

#2

Joanne said, "Blablabla and blah blahblah. Blablabla and blah blahblah. Blablabla and blah blahblah. Blablabla and blah blahblah. Blablabla and blah blahblah."

"Blablabla and blah blahblah. Blablabla and blah blahblah. Blablabla and blah blahblah. Blablabla and blah blahblah. Blablabla and blah blahblah. "

I think #1 is correct. I may be wrong. I have a proofreader who proofed a job and suggested #2.

Which one is correct?

Thanks for your help.

Never mind. Neither are correct.

Correct would be like this... (which is exactly what the proofreader marked and I misread her marks and thought she meant to end the quote on the first paragraph, too.) Whew.


#3 -

Joanne said, "Blablabla and blah blahblah. Blablabla and blah blahblah. Blablabla and blah blahblah. Blablabla and blah blahblah. Blablabla and blah blahblah.

"Blablabla and blah blahblah. Blablabla and blah blahblah. Blablabla and blah blahblah. Blablabla and blah blahblah. Blablabla and blah blahblah. "

A beginning quote on the second paragraph shows she is still talking. I'm a ditz. I've been doing this wrong for years. And I call myself a writer? Ha!

Sorry to have made ya click for nuthin'.