Quotes by Tom Holt

• Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.
• Lawyers are predators in grey worsted.
• The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.
• New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else.
• Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.
• I try and do 2,500 words a day, every day of the year.
• I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either.
• Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem.
• American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957.
• It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.