You are viewing a single comment's thread from:RE: Improve your Writing (Integrating Quotations)View the full contextView the direct parentlennstar (66)in #writing • 7 years ago but that would mean you say it now, not that you said it a few hours back.
It is because you are quoting it from text so if that person had to read the quote for the first time it is as if I had said it again right now. Try not confuse it with direct and indirect speech as that is a different concept to quoting.