I think that through the narratives of other people you get closer to your own.

I have a great advantage: I write from the perspective of my own voice. I'm not copying anyone's voice. It's my voice. I have the advantage of being a writer of English as a second language.

When you make art, those things change shape into something else. It's transformation into a body of different visual elements.

When I was in the sixth grade my friend and I always won writing contests, and we read a lot of books. We were always the ones that read the most books in class. I thought about writing but visual arts weren't part of my vocabulary.

In Cambodian culture the male figure in the family is important; when you lose your husband you lose your economic ability to survive.

I think there are things I can't write in English that I wish I could write in Khmer.

I think that there are certain feelings and things you can convey in a simple form that people can see and understand.