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Q&A Indent dialogue to make text look less blocky

I am writing a story but I am trying to indent the dialog because right now it looks like a chunk of text. My text is Then a figure under the box moved behind Professor to which John yelled “P...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by Dan‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T08:28:05Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/34766
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar Dan‭ · 2019-12-08T08:28:05Z (almost 5 years ago)
I am writing a story but I am trying to indent the dialog because right now it looks like a chunk of text.

My text is

> Then a figure under the box moved behind Professor to which John yelled “Professor! Watch out!” But due to his old age, he didn't hear him...

Would I indent it like

> Then a figure under the box moved behind Professor to which John yelled  
> `` ``“Professor! Watch out!”  
> But due to his old age, he didn't hear him...

I tried researching but don't exactly get how to implement it into my story, also how else can I indent my story to make it look less like a big blob of text without having to introduce a new paragraph

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2018-04-02T22:59:31Z (over 6 years ago)
Original score: 3