If you only write for 15 minutes at a time, you can write a book and still have time for Legos. — Diana Abu-Jaber Book Copy Share Image
“The streets of Aqaba are shell spirals and, on summer nights, crowded and complicated as a woman's heart.” — Diana Abu-Jaber Summer nights Copy Share Image
I'm constantly at war with myself to quit goofing around, and the internet hasn't helped that any. I've learned that I have… — Diana Abu-Jaber Goofing around Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when she lies awake her body feels as finely made as a tuning fork. She can hear and smell the most… — Diana Abu-Jaber Philosophy of Mind Copy Share Image
The daily writing practice is something I used to hear batted around a lot in writing workshops - which is probably why… — Diana Abu-Jaber Anxiety Copy Share Image
“...tasting a piece of bread that someone bought is like looking at that person, but tasting a piece of bread that they… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
“She thinks of Stanley's colored pencil drawings of theoretical businesses: a cafe, a bookshop, and, always, a grocery store. When she was… — Diana Abu-Jaber Business Copy Share Image
“The loneliness of the arab is a terrible thing; it is all consuming. It is already present like a little shadow under… — Diana Abu-Jaber Arab Copy Share Image
“She's been scouted by Ford and Elite- real New York agencies. Micah, the agent for Elite- a tall black guy in silver… — Diana Abu-Jaber Beauty Copy Share Image
“On the top rack is a cooled and decorated seven-layered 'opera' cake. Her client- the Peruvian ambassador- had requested a "tropical" theme… — Diana Abu-Jaber Avis-muir Copy Share Image
Here is something you have to understand about stories: They point you in the right direction but they can't take you all… — Diana Abu-Jaber Beauty Copy Share Image
“The first time Avis knelt on a chair and stirred eggs into flour to make a vanilla cake, she had an inkling… — Diana Abu-Jaber Avis-muir Copy Share Image
“You want to protect you children, don't you? You let them out of your body but you never let them all the… — Diana Abu-Jaber Children Copy Share Image
“..a phantasm, a pink-palmed jinn, a ghost from one of the drowned cities.” — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
“Slavery has been outlawed in most arab countries for years now but there are villages in jordan made up entirely of descendants… — Diana Abu-Jaber Arab Copy Share Image
I honestly never intended food to occupy so much of my creative work. Food-writing often seems about to plummet straight into sentimentality.… — Diana Abu-Jaber Creative Copy Share Image
“How would you feel about doing a little something in the kitchen?" Avis asks tentatively. Brian laughs. He used to assist her… — Diana Abu-Jaber Avis-and-brian Copy Share Image
If you silence yourself, if you try to be good, if you try to be polite, or toe a party line, you… — Diana Abu-Jaber Artistic Copy Share Image
“A cookie, Avis told her children, is a soul. She held up the wafer, its edges shimmering with ruby-dark sugar. "You think… — Diana Abu-Jaber Avis-muir Copy Share Image
Cultural identity is of course connected to this issue. When I was younger, it was inspiring to write about the people that… — Diana Abu-Jaber Canvas Copy Share Image
“Marry, don't marry,' Auntie Aya says as we unfold layers of dough to make an apple strudel. Just don't have your babies… — Diana Abu-Jaber Ask yourself Copy Share Image
“For this cake, I want to mingle the womanly and masculine foods- sugars and meats in particular. The walls must come down.… — Diana Abu-Jaber Avis-muir Copy Share Image
“Avis named her business Paradise Pastry because she imagined cathedrals. She thought about the stonemasons, glassblowers, sculptors- who gave lifetimes to the… — Diana Abu-Jaber Avis-muir Copy Share Image
“Years ago, when she'd studied the constructions of stem, blade, stamen, ovule, she loved the infinite possibilities of the plant kingdom- but… — Diana Abu-Jaber Avis-muir Copy Share Image
