I think every writer has their waves of inspiration and their ways of doing things. But writing is very difficult for me. It's something I haven't practiced as diligently as my visual art. I've been doing visual art because I think it's easier for me to construct, whereas words are very difficult.

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 every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us and sometimes we may feel sympathetic toward a certain aspect of that life event.

This is my first collaboration [with Mary Hamill] so I'm going to learn how it's going to work.

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

I've been coming to Cambodia off and on, six months of the year usually.

There are multiple things entering in your mind.