“So many options that they're almost overwhelming. Which is why it is sometimes so easy to grab the cliche, to reach out to what is familiar. But don't. Because metaphor is all about comparison of two unfamiliar, unlike things.” — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Writing is about making choices, Miss Dovecott says. One word or phrase or title over another. So many options that they're almost overwhelming. Which is why it is sometimes so easy to grab the cliché, to reach out to what… — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
“It is hard to be true to yourself because it is hard to be yourself.” — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
“What I carry in my backpack down to the river, I carry not knowing that in less than an hour Thomas Broughton will be… — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Honor is truth. Truth has many meanings, but it first means that you have to be true to yourself. It is hard to be… — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
“If I were good the way my dad is good, then I wouldn't be filling up these pages. They would be blank, the way… — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Read to your heart's content. Though if you are a reader, the heart is never content.” — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Reading, she tells me, is what she does best. She loves it because it uses the whole of her, the right and the left,… — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
“So many options that they're almost overwhelming. Which is why it is sometimes so easy to grab the cliche, to reach out to what… — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
“She touches her wrist where her watch used to be, her fingers lost without time to hold on to.” — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Seed-- The boy I loved/had the veins of the ancient./He was eighteen, but also/a hundred and eighty,/Biblical and stubborn/as stone lodged/in the earth./ When… — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
“You have to stop and freeze the moment," he told me I had told her. "You have to make yourself remember by repeating it… — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Anthology-- What binds together the moments/of earthly grace? What gathers up/the last white daisy in an amber field;/ a baby bird hatching from a… — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Do you have any idea how hard a story is to write? My brain is jumpy, and my heart doesn't know where to live.… — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
