Jason E. Hodges > Quotes

“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, The Drop Off

“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, When The Cedars Shade Your Grave

“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

“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, The Drop Off

“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

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

“For some folks the world is filled to the top with hurt.”
― Jason E. Hodges, The Mailbox

“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

“Despair is a night without lights. Dreams are the sunrise that leads you out of the darkness.”
― 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, The Mailbox

“Even the wolf gets anxious, but the wolf keeps moving and doing, all while being washed in the magic of moonlight”
― Jason E. Hodges, Petals Falling

“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

“An artist who is driven by money is no longer driven by art”
― Jason E. Hodges

“Sometimes the rules of writing get in the way of a good story told.”
― Jason E. Hodges, Petals Falling

“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, Your Words Will Sharpen

“Labels are safe words for society”
― Jason E. Hodges

“Your dreams don’t stop being dreams because of circumstances.”
― Jason E. Hodges

“I was just a drifter, a writer of what I saw.”
― Jason E. Hodges, Petals Falling

“I’m not afraid to die, but I’m also, not afraid to live.”
― Jason E. Hodges, Petals Falling

“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, Petals Falling

“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, When The Cedars Shade Your Grave

“A shovel is the greatest motivational teacher I know.”
― Jason E. Hodges, Petals Falling

“Some live it, some wish they lived it, and some never know it’s there.”
― Jason E. Hodges, Petals Falling

“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

“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

“We didn’t have AC or Cable TV. We had shade trees and storytellers. This is where my writing comes from.”
― Jason E. Hodges, Petals Falling

“I write novellas, short books, whatever. I set out to write a good story not write a dictionary.”
― Jason E. Hodges, Petals Falling

“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

“Writers live within their mind for their flesh and bones are stuck in a far worse place.”
― Jason E. Hodges, Petals Falling

“A poet writes what they see every day, what they know, what they’ve lived or barely lived through.”
― Jason E. Hodges, Petals Falling