The omniscient narrator simply tells the tale, complete with long quotations and inner monologues from the dead.

A longer quotation speaks of the cloud between God and the praying soul:

There are many digressions and long quotations from his own notes as a correspondent.

I beg my reader's forbearance for beginning my own paper with such a long quotation from another.

His long quotations from Keats's letters fairly leap off the page, and he gives a clear sense of what makes them unique.

The book is filled with rich dialogue, intense political debates and long quotations from letters that no longer exist.

A long quotation should not hang from a stubby or abrupt introduction, like He said, at the beginning of the paragraph.

However, if ancient sources are important for this connection, there may be a "source" line as well, sometimes including longer quotations, as in the first type.

I found myself using more and longer quotations than I had ever used before.

Block quotations are used for the long quotation.