"making quotation" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are introducing a quotation in a sentence, such as: "In his book, the author states, 'Making quotation marks is essential for adding clarity to written works.'".
(Both signs involve making quotations marks in the air by the forehead, but the fingers bend forward for horse, and backward for rabbit).
He was only as sick as his secrets, she'd said, using her fingers to make quotation marks in the air.
The on-screen icons, representing various demographic groups and using the latest in voice synthesis, will give you a polite reminder that it's not right to make quotation signs with your hands, or wink, when you say the word "revenue".
The IMF's man in Kiev makes quotation-mark signs in the air when he talks of the country's "reformers".
Note that this information is of importance also in writing tenders for suppliers to make quotations on improving the quality of the quotes received considerably.
Of course, the CasaPound Italia fascists believe themselves to be credible – through hastily made quotations and audacious and ready retorts, balancing themselves on the social chasm created by 20 years of bad politics – but I doubt anybody else thinks so.
He's dismissed from his reporting job at a New York paper after making up quotations.
Barbara White's "Learning to See," again for six players, was a real discovery: she writes no more notes than she needs, and she has a way of making straightforward quotations (from Varése, Stravinsky and others) her own.
Clay Robinette, a former journalist who was disgraced after being caught making up quotations in his articles, is now teaching at a Midwestern university with a former 60's radical named Reggie Brogus.
