I do not think a similar goal, to attain fame, drove me when I was a child and young woman.
Shirley Geok-lin LimWhen someone asks me now, "What do you do?" I will be able to say, "I am a writer."
Shirley Geok-lin LimI really felt neurotic - it was a neurotic reason - but I had to teach very, very well. That sucked up a lot of oxygen from my time and my creative thinking.
Shirley Geok-lin LimPhilosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim