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I'm seeing books with and without them for dialogue. It looks less cluttered to omit them, but it gets confusing. And if so, ' or "
You aren't looking at many books, and I've never seen one that didn't have dialogue indicators. At least ninety-nine point some of novels use quotation marks, the rest try to be artsy-fartsy and use a dash for quotation marks, like Cold Mountain.
Someone correct me on this, but I think this is French.
Just don't do it. No one wants to read fiction without quotation marks, and even though Cold Mountain was a success, no book has ever has as many complaints about formatting as that one.