Keynote speech at All In! Young Writers Media Festival by Dr Gwee Li Sui

...All of you know what it means to write – or you won’t be here with me, in this room, on a perfect weekend. You don’t just want to write or dream about writing; I know you have already started writing. You don’t want others to know yet, not until you are prepared, and so you have hidden away what you do. But, whatever it is you are writing or have written, wherever you have hidden it, you must have got from it a sense of what it means to write...

read the full text of the speech at Dr Gwee's blog