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A Life with Words: A Writer's Memoir by Richard B. Wright

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5.0

This memoir is a "must read" book for anyone remotely interested a life with words. There is so much to enjoy, from his remembrances of childhood in rural Ontario to his days in publishing in Toronto to his struggles with finding time to write as an English teacher at a private school in St. Catherines, but I think my favourite part has to be at the end, when Wright shares his thoughts on the value of reading: "We encounter another human being speaking to us; our imaginations are revitalized by words as we fashion them into ideas and images, ..." Indeed, there is nothing like it.
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