I follow blogs, particularly all the main political ones - Guido Fawkes, Iain Dale, Coffee House, Paul Waugh, Iain Martin in the Wall Street Journal, and so on. And some American ones, like the Huffington Post, Gawker, Boing Boing; or… — Ben Schott Copy Share Image
For me, writing is like being taken on a walk by a footnote: It's amazing where you end up. — Ben Schott Copy Share Image
The web can be a fast trip to the library, giving you immediate access to a government report, or it can filter media for… — Ben Schott Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time looking at rococo books. And almanacs used to be huge sellers - they were pretty much part of… — Ben Schott Copy Share Image
I follow blogs, particularly all the main political ones - Guido Fawkes, Iain Dale, Coffee House, Paul Waugh, Iain Martin in the Wall Street… — Ben Schott Copy Share Image
“I'm a firm believer in thinking inside the box. The first thing I do when approaching a new project is to give myself rigid… — Ben Schott Copy Share Image
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. — Ben Schott Copy Share Image
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.'… — Ben Schott Copy Share Image
Writing 'Schottenfreude' has reinforced the fact that there are few, if any, emotions that have not been experienced, and analyzed, by some of the… — Ben Schott Copy Share Image
I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms. — Ben Schott Copy Share Image
I read the papers online, and something usually piques my curiosity - that will then be the baseline of my research for the day. — Ben Schott Copy Share Image
