Set Alarm Quotes by Ben Schott

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

— Ben Schott

I never read articles about my books.

— Ben Schott

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

— Ben Schott

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.

— Ben Schott

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

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

— Ben Schott

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

— Ben Schott

I'm very fond of an old map of London that used to belong to my father. I'm a big London fan, and the evolution…

— Ben Schott