If your paper is only 6 pages long, then that quote would
be 15% of the text -- and it isn't YOU!. Good research uses sources like what you have
found, and selects the most salient points to quote. Once you have the quote or
paraphrase, then YOU need to explain what you have written and connect it to whatever
the topic of your paper is. Your teacher wants to know what you think first and
foremost -- not what other people think. Your essay needs to reflect you -- not be a
summary of others.
If this is a literary analysis paper,
consider the idea and examples from your source, but then also discuss additional
examples that you found in the text.
On a side note, be
sure that you use proper documentation of ANY ideas that come from outside sources,
whether you use direct quotations or paraphrases. Just putting someone else's idea into
your own words does not make the idea yours -- that is still plagiarism.
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