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16 quotes by Ben Schott

Ben Schott Born (1974-05-26) 26 May 1974 (age 40) North London, England Education University College School, Hampstead Alma mater Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge Notable works Schott's Miscellany, Schott's Almanac Website www.benschott.com Ben Schott (born 26 May 1974) is a British writer, photographer, and author of the Schott's Miscellanies and Schott's Almanac series.
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I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.

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The web can be a fast trip to the library, giving you immediate access to a government report, or it can filter media for you, which is why I look at... →

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I read the papers online, and something usually piques my curiosity - that will then be the baseline of my research for the day.

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If I'm researching something strange and rococo, I'll go to the London Library or the British Library and look it up in books.

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I follow blogs, particularly all the main political ones - Guido Fawkes, Iain Dale, Coffee House, Paul Waugh, Iain Martin in the Wall Street Journal... →

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A great deal of American T.V. viewed on Hulu, which is superb - '30 Rock', for instance, is on very good form.

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For me, photography only stopped because I was selling books.

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For me, writing is like being taken on a walk by a footnote: It's amazing where you end up.

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I have the luxury of getting up quite late, so I hardly ever set an alarm clock.

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I never read articles about my books.

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The radio's pretty much always on, and I also listen to some American podcasts, such as for 'National Public Radio' and... →

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I always wanted to be a photographer. While I was at school, I got a lab-monkey holiday job in the darkrooms at the 'Independent.' What they... →

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I spend a lot of time looking at rococo books. And almanacs used to be huge sellers - they were pretty much part of the fabric of life. I thought... →

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