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What is the correct way to punctuate a list of spoken quotes? For example:
They had a variety of excuses for missing the meeting, such as:
“We weren’t really sure we were meeting tonight. Were we?”
“Good thing I see you all the time anyway.”
“I know you understand how demanding my job is.”
As they are not exactly quotations, but shorthand expressions for the types of excuses on offer, I would tend not to put them in quotation marks but in italics:
They had a variety of excuses for missing the meeting, such as: We weren't really sure we were meeting tonight, were we?; Good thing I see you all the time anyway; I know you understand how demanding my job is.
You may wish to add the words along the lines of after such as.
