If you’d like a paragraph to be an epigraph, block quote, or pull quote, underline it in your manuscript. (This is to code the text; it won’t appear as underlined in your book.)

For the purpose of emphasizing words, please use italics instead of underlining.

Here’s how a block quote/epigraph will look in your manuscript:

Here’s how a block quote/epigraph might appear in your book (using the layouts Rowling and Sandberg):

 

Additional info about block quotes:

• Include attributions in the same paragraph as excerpted text.
• If the underlined paragraph immediately follows an image, it’ll be styled as an image caption instead of a block quote.
• If your excerpt/block quote is several paragraphs long (such as in the case of, say, a letter), italicize it instead of underlining, since this is easier for readers to read.
• Within a block quote, you cannot italicize, bold, or otherwise format the text at this time. (We’re working on it!)

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