Ben Schott Zitate auf Englisch

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

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, this is bizarre, I'd love to buy a book like this, and there isn't one. So I thought, all right then, this could be fun. I'll write an almanac.

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

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

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

Ben Schott

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

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 you, which is why I look at around 15- 20 of these sites every day.

Ben Schott

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

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 of the city is astonishing, when you look back to Pepys and how small it was - everyone knew each other.

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 world's greatest writers.

Ben Schott

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

Ben Schott