I don't approach my writing or my work from an academic or analytical point of view. I do it for myself.

Even if you look in the dictionary you know the meaning of the word or phrase, but there's still the feeling of it.

If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer.

The family I grew up in had three generations of widows.

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

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

How am I placing myself in the world of other people around me? For me, I feel that I am not really alone, that others can feel it too. I see art in this way.