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- “That's why I love being a writer. My imagination can take me places I may never see except in my mind's eye.”Pearl Cleage
- “The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these…”John Frankenheimer
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Books by Alberto Manguel
A history of reading
1997
The Library at Night
2008
The dictionary of imaginary places
1999
Reading Pictures
2001
A reading diary
2005