The phrase "avoid quoting" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when advising someone not to use direct citations from a source.
Example: "In your essay, please avoid quoting directly from the book; instead, summarize the main ideas in your own words."
Alternatives: "refrain from citing" or "steer clear of quoting".
Painters cannot avoid quoting, requoting, echoing, succeeding and failing in comparison to the past.
(Speaking of clichés, a warning to Stern applicants: avoid quoting the Robert Frost poem "The Road Not Taken". Nearly every American has to read it in school, and it thus gets quoted endlessly. Meanwhile there are thousands of other perfectly good poems that go ignored. Odds are the Stern readers are already rather tired of it).
I try to avoid quoting executives from canned earnings comments, but given the length of Chambers' tenure, it feels like fair play.
Among Tufekci's recommendations: Avoid specifying the killer's choice of weapons, avoid quoting his writings or utterances, delay releasing the suspect's name and, to not add to the traumatizing of victims and their loved ones, resist the urge to interview victims and loved ones.
Most photographers will quote their clients on a case-to-case basis, so avoid quoting a price in your advertising.
Avoid quoting words when it is unnecessary to do so, like this: Benítez said he was "angry" that Liverpool were being written out of the title race.
Where market makers previously avoided quoting odd eighths, Messrs Simaan and Whitcomb find them "strangely reluctant" to quote odd sixteenths.
They find that although the market has become much more efficient, investors are not getting as good a deal as they might.In their original article, Messrs Christie and Schultz found that in 70 of the 100 most heavily traded stocks, Nasdaq dealers avoided quoting prices in odd eighths of a dollar.
Media coverage initially avoided quoting the key itself.
He's emphasizing deft passages of wet-on-wet painting à la Mr. Katz and largely avoiding quoting period styles and older art.
An F.B.I. official, speaking anonymously to avoid being quoted about a case that did not involve the official directly, said Tuesday that while Mr. Isham may have given the bureau information, he was never considered an informant.
