He does all his own writing, asking help only in the search for exact quotations.

Apologies if that's not an exact quotation.

And some may find disconcerting his habit of presenting extended exact quotations from 20-year-old conversations that no one could possibly recall in such detail.

For him, adaptation includes exact quotation, imitation and incorporation of his own additions.

The word is often used to express that what follows is not an exact quotation but instead gives a general feel for what was said.

That adjectival usage was then treated as the exact quotation, which it probably was not.

Actually that is not an exact quotation.

On the other hand, it feels as if I'm getting better at remembering exact quotations.

"Enter-prises of great pith and moment" is the exact quotation, sir.

"But that sentence is an exact quotation."