diff --git a/lisp/ox-odt.el b/lisp/ox-odt.el
index dc09f49b8..10ebd0947 100644
--- a/lisp/ox-odt.el
+++ b/lisp/ox-odt.el
@@ -1364,7 +1364,7 @@ original parsed data.  INFO is a plist holding export options."
 	     (condition-case nil
 		 (read s)
 	       (error (user-error "Invalid styles file specification: %S" s))))
-	    (filename filename))))
+	    (filename (org-strip-quote filename)))))
     (cond
      ;; Non-availability of styles.xml is not a critical error.  For
      ;; now, throw an error.