"Any critic should know the text she’s criticizing like the back of her hand, or at least have a sense of the angles that she’s missed if only so she can respond when she is questioned or attacked for her opinion. When your textual output is opinion, when your literary work (so to speak) is the critical essay, you live off the lack of separation."
Katrina Stuart Santiago in conversation with Caroline S Hau and Miguel Syjuco • Manila Review