[My muse] she's impatient with me, because I don't do what I should do: sit down and write.
Shirley Geok-lin LimSome Asian American male scholars have claimed this muse to be Guong Goong, God of Literature, and, simultaneously, although not coincidentally or triflingly, God of War, but I did not have such a gendered muse in mind then.
Shirley Geok-lin LimSometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer - as it first formed for me.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim