Quotation Marks are marks of punctuation that are used to set off a direct quotation or a piece of dialogue.
DIRECT QUOTATIONS
Use double quotation marks to enclose a direct quotation.
Direct quotations repeat a speaker's exact words.
Her editor told her, "The final edits are done on the manuscript."
"The final edits," her editor told her, "are done on the manuscript."
INDIRECT QUOTATIONS
You would not use quotation marks were the sentence structured using and indirect quotation.
Indirect quotations are summaries or paraphrases of someone else's words.
Her editor told her that the final edits were done on the man