“What happens when a female writer invokes a female muse? Does something else happen? With Sappho's figures of desire, we have a different lesbian energy.” DoeDifferentHappensDesireEnergyFiguresFemaleMuseInvokeFemale Writers Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“"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.” IfsWantWritingDesireSuccessfulClearDecadesUnhappyInterviewsProductiveCasualAlways HappyBiographers Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“In Among the White Moon Faces, I wrote about my desire to be a writer as rooted in my obsessive hours of reading English novels and poetry. It was that spur, that desire, that pushed me to set aside love and marriage in my early twenties.” FacesDesireReadingHoursWhiteNovelMoonTwentiesRootedObsessiveSpursLove And Marriage Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“Of course, among the confused motives that spurred me toward being a writer was also the desire to look, to be above the trees and rooftops, beyond the Malaysian horizon that circumscribed my life.” LooksDesireCoursesTreeMotiveConfusedHorizonRooftops Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“I was driven, as have been many writers, both by a repulsion of the childhood home's narrow confines and a desire to reach further, to keep desiring more of a future not yet imagined and not yet written down.” Has BeensHomeDesireWrittenChildhoodDrivenRepulsionChildhood Home Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“That desire to reach further is also where I ended my memoir, in 1994 in California, perhaps ironically, looking out to the Pacific and back to Asia, toward the not-yet-written.” DesireWrittenMemoirCaliforniaAsiaPacific Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
