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 LimIn publishing books and winning awards, it's like you've enjoyed this meal, you know, two months ago. How long can you be nourished by thinking about it? You've already ingested it, and you've excreted it, and that was two months ago. You had this fabulous meal. It's not going to keep you satiated today. You have to go out and get your next meal. For me, that's writing. I have to go out and hunt my next meal.
Shirley Geok-lin LimWhen I was younger, yes, there was a part of me - and I wrote about that bit in Among the White Moon Faces - that wanted to be a boy. I wanted to be accepted by my brothers and to be their peers.
Shirley Geok-lin LimIn some ways it is absurd for me to assert, counter to evidence, that I have not been writing.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim