“I was not - even the notion of "could not" seems to suggest a moment of recognition, but it was such a repressed dimension - I was not able to NOT wear a shirt like my brothers could. My brothers would, in the heat, run around shirtless, and I wouldn't do that, obviously.” MomentsSeemsRunningAbleBrotherNotionRecognitionShirtsHeatMy BrotherDimensionsRepressed Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“One should be able to teach adequately and feel good about it.” FeelsShouldAbleTeachFeel Good Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“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 getting up, sitting down, picking this or that up. You can't do that and be a writer. You need to be able to sit still.” NeedsStillsAbleCitiesSittingUniversityFlatsProfessorsVisitingCampusSitting DownHong KongNomadic Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“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.” WorldWritingUseAbleTurnsWalkingObservationDistractionRestlessnessNomadicWriting Poems Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“No one, evidently, except me has found "No Alarms" poem ironical that an obsessive theme in my writing was - and has continued to be - not being able to write.” WritingAbleFoundThemeAlarmsObsessive Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“When someone asks me now, "What do you do?" I will be able to say, "I am a writer."” AbleAsksAsk Me Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“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.” WritingAbleLanguageImaginationSubjectsThemeAbandonedMy ImaginationFormationObsessive Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
