Quote by Diana Abu-Jaber

If you only write for 15 minutes at a time, you can write a book and still have time for Legos.

— Diana Abu-Jaber

“The streets of Aqaba are shell spirals and, on summer nights, crowded and complicated as a woman's heart.”

— Diana Abu-Jaber

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 to be…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

Love and prayer are intimately related.

— Diana Abu-Jaber

“Sometimes when she lies awake her body feels as finely made as a tuning fork. She can hear and smell the most delicate things,…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

The daily writing practice is something I used to hear batted around a lot in writing workshops - which is probably why I dropped…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

“She thinks of Stanley's colored pencil drawings of theoretical businesses: a cafe, a bookshop, and, always, a grocery store. When she was ten and…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

“The loneliness of the arab is a terrible thing; it is all consuming. It is already present like a little shadow under the heart…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

“She's been scouted by Ford and Elite- real New York agencies. Micah, the agent for Elite- a tall black guy in silver eyeliner- said…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

“On the top rack is a cooled and decorated seven-layered 'opera' cake. Her client- the Peruvian ambassador- had requested a "tropical" theme for a…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

Here is something you have to understand about stories: They point you in the right direction but they can't take you all the way…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

“The first time Avis knelt on a chair and stirred eggs into flour to make a vanilla cake, she had an inkling of how…

— Diana Abu-Jaber