Word Puppets Quotes

“Saskia shivered; A.I. always made her edgy. They were like puppets in reverse -- a soul without a body.”
― Mary Robinette Kowal, Word Puppets

“That sort of thing drives me crazy, too. So . . . ” Mary said. “For my Regency novels, I made a Jane Austen spellcheck dictionary from her complete works. If one of my novels uses a word that isn’t in that dictionary, it gets flagged and I look it up to see if it was in use in Regency England.” She cocked her head slightly. “Did you know they apparently didn’t have wastebaskets?” That’s the point at which I thought to myself, I need to spend more time with this woman. She is my kind of crazy.”
― Mary Robinette Kowal, Word Puppets