<div><p>I think a new property is preferable than a new fictional quotation type; in addition to the issue of addressing the audience directly, there's the issue of quotations from the narrator that are not, particularly, addressed to anyone (I mean, yes they're addressed to the reader, but not in the same way that a soliloquy is addressed to the audience). In these cases, we'd have fictional-universe quotations with no speaker and no audience, which would just seem weird.</p>
<p>So I think a new property (and quotation-addressee type), which is explicitly for the explicit addressee of a quotation (as opposed to the implied addressee, i.e. "the reader", "the audience", "the American people" [for those addresses to Congress]), would work.</p>
<p>@spencer: I don't see why a quotation source couldn't be an event. For speeches, the "Notable speech or presentation" type would be better than the speaking event, but it's entirely possible for quotations to come from other types of speaking events (panel discussions, Q&amp;As, symposia, etc.). </p></div>