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Tom Holt
British
Novelist
About the author
Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.
Tom Holt,
British
Novelist
#Poetry
#Childhood
#Habits
Lawyers are predators in grey worsted.
Tom Holt,
British
Novelist
#Lawyers
The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.
Tom Holt,
British
Novelist
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.
Tom Holt,
British
Novelist
#Technology
#Ugly
#Tomorrow
Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.
Tom Holt,
British
Novelist
#Car
#Luck
I try and do 2,500 words a day, every day of the year.
Tom Holt,
British
Novelist
#Words
#Day
I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either.
Tom Holt,
British
Novelist
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.
Tom Holt,
British
Novelist
#Patience
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.
Tom Holt,
British
Novelist
#Time
#Day
#American
#Tea
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.
Tom Holt,
British
Novelist
#Evening
#Dying