Question

Quotation: A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
Author: Nabokov
Page: 43
How should this information be formatted for an in-text citation?
"A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past" (Nabokov 43).
"A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past." “Nabokov, 43”
"A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

Answer 1

Hello, the correct answer is A. When you are quoting somebody in-text, you need to mention the author and usually the book/page where you extracted that quote from. That is why the first option is the correct one. You shouldn't put the author's name in quotation mark. And the last example is clearly not correct because it doesn't even state the name of the author.