Jason E. Hodges Quotes & Sayings

My life has been a storm of change, Some I did not want, but all I have weathered. — Jason E. Hodges

For the writer that has truly suffered, their pen, their words, their art will become as important as breathing. — Jason E. Hodges

I write novellas, short books, whatever. I set out to write a good story not write a dictionary. — Jason E. Hodges

When I drove home, I burned myself just to feel something. I'm just so lost right now, and I feel like I'm being hit with wave after wave of sadness. It feels like a struggle to even think about tomorrow. — Jason E. Hodges

For the writer, madness should seep slowly out of them from the world they endure each day. — Jason E. Hodges

Sleeplessness and being a writer seem to go together hand in hand. — Jason E. Hodges

The same things that make you unique in this world, make you a target for the archers consumed by fear and jealousy. — Jason E. Hodges

A shovel is the greatest motivational teacher I know. — Jason E. Hodges

As a writer, a poet, you're not alone in wanting to be alone. Your work is a friendship that never leaves you. — Jason E. Hodges

I was just a drifter, a writer of what I saw. — Jason E. Hodges

Poets, with no sponsors, no agenda, are the truest form of freedom today, bleeding out every drop of themselves for the world to either hate or devour. — Jason E. Hodges

Humans have the ability to rewrite history. Within a few decades it is not even questioned. Stories of the past become as real as the world you walk through today. Wars are waged over false history. Sins are denied. All for mankind to move forward and feel comfortable about its past. Your true history is written in the stars. Look up, breathe in, and be humbled by the ones who came before you. The ones who have suffered, who have endured, who have overcome. Their blood is alive in you. Their spirits roam freely in the heavens above. — Jason E. Hodges

Lies are served like a fine delicacy. But beware, the truth of it all will sour, lodge in your throat, and choke your very existence if you continue to believe them. — Jason E. Hodges

There is no value in your promises. They are as hollow as fangs and poisonous as the venom within them once I allowed them into my heart. — Jason E. Hodges

Despair is a night without lights. Dreams are the sunrise that leads you out of the darkness. — Jason E. Hodges

Some want to be writers when life permits it. There is no part-time in being a writer. It's an all-in way of living your life through words and feelings scratched out with a pen. — Jason E. Hodges

They say, poetry is dead. I say, was there ever a time they had a clue of what the state of poetry is? — Jason E. Hodges

Writers that are pouring their soul out for the world to see, will cast a perfect reflection of themselves in their work. — Jason E. Hodges

Destroying the planet is like stepping from a moving train and thinking it will all work out. — Jason E. Hodges

Your dreams don't stop being dreams because of circumstances. — Jason E. Hodges

Digging deep inside you as a writer will damn near kill you at times. But in the end, your words will be true and undeniable for the reader, and that is all that ever really matters in writing. — Jason E. Hodges

A poet writes what they see every day, what they know, what they've lived or barely lived through. — Jason E. Hodges

Becoming a writer does not mean words will suddenly flow with perfection from your pen. It takes hard work, rejection, and the willingness to lay everything inside you out for the world to see. — Jason E. Hodges

Chaos is life, if you're doing great things. — Jason E. Hodges

Writers live within their mind for their flesh and bones are stuck in a far worse place. — Jason E. Hodges

People who think following your dreams is a fairytale don't realize they're living the biggest fairytale of all, following the sheep — Jason E. Hodges

You can be the greatest at stringing words together but if you don't mean what you say your words will not live long in this world. — Jason E. Hodges

History is the roadmap to a better tomorrow. Destroying it is getting rid of any chance of what not to do for future generations. — Jason E. Hodges

We didn't have AC or Cable TV. We had shade trees and storytellers. This is where my writing comes from. — Jason E. Hodges

A poet's words are like mortar to the bricks of society. — Jason E. Hodges

Some live it, some wish they lived it, and some never know it's there. — Jason E. Hodges

I'm not afraid to die, but I'm also, not afraid to live. — Jason E. Hodges

Express to our world what is alive inside us not what their world says we should be ... Our true selves should never be created by others, Held in their pockets like belongings, like trinkets. We are skaters. We are artists. We are free. — Jason E. Hodges

Even the wolf gets anxious, but the wolf keeps moving and doing, all while being washed in the magic of moonlight — Jason E. Hodges

Each morning the winds of the city moan and weep with lost souls clinging to hope of reliving the memories of yesterday. — Jason E. Hodges

Never be an artist that starts worshiping yourself or believe your little group is better than anyone outside of it. For, you are nothing more than a grain of sand on a hillside in this world of ours. Even Da Vinci's work is only glanced at then scrolled past on a phone or computer these days. Climb down off your throne and become humble once more. — Jason E. Hodges

If you're not going to immerse yourself in your work as a writer then don't write. But beware, if you're a writer who does not write, you stand a good chance of drowning in the world that surrounds you. — Jason E. Hodges

Sometimes the rules of writing get in the way of a good story told. — Jason E. Hodges

Sometimes people just can't take how real the world can be. Even if they're your friend they'll drop away from you like petals from a dying flower to keep their own sanity. — Jason E. Hodges

You know you're getting somewhere as a writer when the rejection letters mean as much as spam in your inbox. — Jason E. Hodges

Literature is a love that won't let you down or show its true colors after some time goes by. You know what it's about from the moment you read it. In a lot of ways it's a perfect love. — Jason E. Hodges

For some folks the world is filled to the top with hurt. — Jason E. Hodges

I was a poet. I had no expectations other than creating a world of art with words that would live on long after I was gone. — Jason E. Hodges

Sweat, blood, and tears mean nothing in your writing if you're not willing to burn what doesn't work. — Jason E. Hodges