Signs of a maddening system of writing and counting that calibrates the values of something the poet does not yet know. Praxis… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
When I write, I put aside the heterosexual world to admit a muse that is a woman-loving-woman female. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Just because suddenly you have a sabbatical doesn't mean that the writing occasion comes to you. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
In publishing books and winning awards, it's like you've enjoyed this meal, you know, two months ago. How long can you be… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Writing a poem is unwriting a knot, like untying a shoelace that is clubbing your foot. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The Chinese traditionally have revered age and longevity - I have one and hope for the other! - so, in Taipei, a… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I'm nomadic. Even when I'm a visiting professor here at the City University of Hong Kong, in this campus flat, I'm constantly… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I had a couple of Asian readers and other folks tell me, "Oh, you have a lot of sex in your writing." — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
In actual fact, I have been an academic - a college and university teacher and scholar - for much of the last… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
This condition [irony] has nothing to do with writer's block, a psychological syndrome, which is one of the few I have not… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
When I spoke at the 2012 Contemporary Women Writers' Conference in Taipei, I thought it offered an appropriate moment and site to… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
When someone asks me now, "What do you do?" I will be able to say, "I am a writer." — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
What happens when a female writer invokes a female muse? Does something else happen? With Sappho's figures of desire, we have a… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Emerging into writership, I have plans to discover my other themes, of nation and country, love and conflict, the body and transcendence,… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
In some ways it is absurd for me to assert, counter to evidence, that I have not been writing. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The judges who awarded the 1980 Commonwealth Poetry Prize to my first collection of poems, Crossing the Peninsula and Other Poems, cited… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Note, the reply will not be "I write," an act that I have, after all, been performing since I was nine. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
[My muse] she's impatient with me, because I don't do what I should do: sit down and write. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I was driven, as have been many writers, both by a repulsion of the childhood home's narrow confines and a desire to… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
According to [Maxine Hong] Kingston, the prose writer is "a workhorse." — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Even my novels offer passages in which the major character is imagined as a writer. In Joss and Gold, Li An is… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Now that I'm more middle class, I have access to consumer goods. I do enjoy feminine frippery, feminine doo-da, stuff like that. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The poem might come to you as you're preparing to teach a lecture, right? And when you say, "no" to that occasion, that poem… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Once you stop talking about the female body empowering itself vis-à-vis male forays or invasions or male demands or the necessity to respond to… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I feel compassionate, because I know [students] all have to go down this road of suffering and it's going to be tough. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Even after the mothering dropped because my son grew up, the writing - the muse - was always the third wheel, the lowest on… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
If you've been in a symbolic struggle long enough, even when the struggle is over, you don't know it's over. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
"I want to be always happy," Maxine Hong Kingston announces . But, as this interview makes clear, for me, it was the desire to… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Crows appear in many of my new unpublished poems. In these walks, they take on a symbolic life apart from their irritating, undeniable, interruptive… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
People called me a tomboy. That was the term used then. I was very much someone who was comfortable in male clothing, and even… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
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