Shirley Geok-lin Lim Quotes About Writing

• I did not write about that kind of insecurity and anxiety between myself and my brothers, because my father was the dominant male figure as I was growing up in that home.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Hermano, Crecer, Padre

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

• Just because suddenly you have a sabbatical doesn't mean that the writing occasion comes to you.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Mean, Sabbatical

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

• Después de Cincuenta sombras de Grey, creo que mi escritura es bastante insulsa, ¿no?

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Escribir, Pensar, Cincuenta

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

• In some ways it is absurd for me to assert, counter to evidence, that I have not been writing.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Way, Absurd

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

• The body in defense against male appropriation expresses itself through work in writing, and the work in writing produces the book. So it's a different form of creation and generation that may be viewed as creation without male contribution as a component or challenge.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Libro, Escritura, Retos

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

• I had to do the academic writing. At a top research university, publishing of a certain kind is very important. So your friend is right. You can't do three things well.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Important, Three

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

• I can't imagine otherwise - I guess Virginia Woolf could write wonderful novels where the women never have sex, and her novels work. But for me, I don't think I could write a plot without sex happening somewhere.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Sexo, Escritura, Pensamiento

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

• Even my novels offer passages in which the major character is imagined as a writer. In Joss and Gold, Li An is a business writer who edits her company's weekly public relations magazine. And in Sister Swing, Suyin writes human interest stories for a free, local community paper, The Asian Time.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Character, Swings

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

• It's as if I'm setting aside the husband and son, you know, the patriarchal world, for the world of the muse. This is the world of writing.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Husband, Writing, Son

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

• Even after the mothering dropped because my son grew up, the writing - the muse - was always the third wheel, the lowest on the priority list.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Son, Priorities

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

• Al publicar libros y ganar premios, es como si hubieras disfrutado de esta comida, ya sabes, hace dos meses. ¿Cuánto tiempo puedes alimentarte pensando en ello? Ya la has ingerido, y la has excretado, y eso fue hace dos meses. Tuviste una comida fabulosa. No te va a mantener saciado hoy. Tienes que salir y conseguir tu próxima comida. Para mí, eso es escribir. Tengo que salir a cazar mi próxima comida.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Book, Writing, Winning

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

• 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

  Writing, Nine, Notes

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

• From the world of the muse and writing, there will come, hopefully, the book. You're right, for me, that the muse is always female, and the book comes from a separate gender dimension than the concrete male world that, as you pointed out, has been surrounding me since I was an infant.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Book, Writing, Males

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

• This distraction is what one wants, which is very, very bad for the muse, because the muse hates not being in the line of sight. It's no longer an external conflict, like, oh, I have all these demands and I don't like them. The split is in the self. This may explain why, when I was in Santa Barbara before I went to Singapore and then now to Hong Kong, there was a writing moment when I was writing a poem a day. I had never done that before.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Hate, Writing, Sight

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

• Tradicionalmente, los chinos han venerado la edad y la longevidad -¡yo tengo una y espero la otra! - Así que, en Taipei, ciudad-cubo de chinos de todo el mundo que no se identifican con la construcción de una China nacionalista comunista por parte de la República Popular China, invoqué a la musa china de la escritura para que fuera testigo de mi salida del bosque académico.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Cities, People

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

• In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature of language, particularly English, in the formation of my imagination and being.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Imagination, Able

  Fuente: www.oxfordjournals.org

• If the act of writing is the act of putting aside the masculine, then you might in that way, it may sound almost crazy to say this, say that the act of writing, for a woman, could be a homosexual act.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Crazy, Writing, Sound

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

• I was writing poems as I was walking. I was able to take that restlessness, that nomadic distraction, and use that distraction in the world and turn that distraction into observations and then into poems.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Use, World

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

• "I want to be always happy," Maxine Hong Kingston announces . But, as this interview makes clear, for me, it was the desire to write poetry that kept me discontented, if not depressed and unhappy, through what many casual biographers have characterized as successful and productive decades.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Successful, Unhappy

  Fuente: www.oxfordjournals.org

• Emergiendo a la escritura, tengo planes para descubrir mis otros temas, de nación y país, amor y conflicto, el cuerpo y la trascendencia, mutilación y totalidad, inanición y perversa abundancia, y más. Es decir, ya estoy pensando en seguir escribiendo.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  País, Escribir, Pensar

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

• When I write, I put aside the heterosexual world to admit a muse that is a woman-loving-woman female.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Female, World

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

• If I could write a novel while I'm walking, I probably would.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Novel, Walking

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

• The judges who awarded the 1980 Commonwealth Poetry Prize to my first collection of poems, Crossing the Peninsula and Other Poems, cited with approval and with no apparent conscious irony my early poem, "No Alarms." The poem was composed probably sometime in 1974 or 1975, and it complained about the impossibility of writing poetry - of being a poet - under the conditions in which I was living then.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Judging, Alarms

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

• Signs of a maddening system of writing and counting that calibrates the values of something the poet does not yet know. Praxis is therefore poetics.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Escritura, Doe, Poeta

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

• [My muse] she's impatient with me, because I don't do what I should do: sit down and write.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Down And, Muse

  Fuente: www.oxfordjournals.org

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