Jason E. Hodges Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

An artist who is driven by money is no longer driven by art

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.

Chaos is life, if you're doing great things.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

For some folks the world is filled to the top with hurt.

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

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

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

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

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.

Sleeplessness and being a writer seem to go together hand in hand.