Oliver Sacks: 'writing gives me a joy unlike any other’ – video

Eminent neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks, who died from terminal cancer on Sunday, describes the pleasure writing gives him. In the video posted on his YouTube channel, he says it 'takes him to another place' where he lets go of worries and forgets about the passage of time. Sacks was a prolific writer, publishing 13 books throughout his life, including his most famous work, Awakenings, which was made into an Oscar-nominated film

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