About Tom Holt: Thomas Charles Louis "Tom" Holt is a British novelist. In addition to fiction published under his own name, he writes fantasy under the pseudonym K. J. Parker.
Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try.
Mostly I sit at home in the evenings watching the box and hoping that one day I'll evolve into plankton.
Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world.
And your life,' Katie said to Christy, 'is turning into a rather predictable romance. Girl meets boy. Boy is a dork for four years. Girl blossoms into a gorgeous woman. Boy finds his brain. Girl turns into starry-eyed mush head.
When you're about to die, your whole life's supposed to flash before your eyes. When you fall in true love, on the other hand, what you see in the twinkling of an eye is your entire future.
The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.
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.
Lawyers are predators in grey worsted.
I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either.
I try and do 2,500 words a day, every day of the year.
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.
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.
Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.
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.
