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Quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“I do not think a similar goal, to attain fame, drove me when I was a child and young woman.”

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Shirley Geok-lin Lim is a Singaporean-born writer known for her profound insights into multiculturalism and her rich literary works. Her writings often focus on themes of race, gender, and identity, which have resonated with readers worldwide. more

“Even my novels offer passages in which the major character is imagined as a writer. In Joss and Gold, Li An is a business writer who edits her company's weekly public relations magazine. And in Sister Swing, Suyin writes human interest stories for a free, local community paper, The Asian Time.”

Writing Humans Character Stories Interest Community Company Novel Offers Paper Majors Gold Relation Locals Magazines Passages Swings Asian Edits Public Relations Local Community

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“When someone asks me now, "What do you do?" I will be able to say, "I am a writer."”

Able Asks Ask Me

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“Note, the reply will not be "I write," an act that I have, after all, been performing since I was nine.”

Writing Notes Nine Performing

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“Rather, the collapsing between act and condition, "I am" with "I do," feels like authenticity, an authenticity of being. The muse rewarded me for a few months, after April of 2012, by giving me poems, almost a poem each day, that I can claim as coming from my writer's status.”

Giving Feels I Can Conditions Months Claims Authenticity Each Day Muse April

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“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.”

Writing Able Language Imagination Subjects Theme Abandoned My Imagination Formation Obsessive

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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