Jason E. Hodges Quotes

#1. Even the wolf gets anxious, but the wolf keeps moving and doing, all while being washed in the magic of moonlight

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

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#3. Despair is a night without lights. Dreams are the sunrise that leads you out of the darkness.

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#4. A poet's words are like mortar to the bricks of society.

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

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#6. I'm not afraid to die, but I'm also, not afraid to live.

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#7. 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.

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

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

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#10. 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.

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#11. People who think following your dreams is a fairytale don't realize they're living the biggest fairytale of all, following the sheep

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#12. You know you're getting somewhere as a writer when the rejection letters mean as much as spam in your inbox.

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

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

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#15. Sometimes the rules of writing get in the way of a good story told.

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#16. 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.

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#17. 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.

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#18. Your dreams don't stop being dreams because of circumstances.

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#19. As a writer, a poet, you're not alone in wanting to be alone. Your work is a friendship that never leaves you.

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#20. 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.

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#21. Some live it, some wish they lived it, and some never know it's there.

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

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#23. 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.

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#24. 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.

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#25. Each morning the winds of the city moan and weep with lost souls clinging to hope of reliving the memories of yesterday.

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#26. A poet writes what they see every day, what they know, what they've lived or barely lived through.

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#27. A shovel is the greatest motivational teacher I know.

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#28. 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.

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#29. For the writer, madness should seep slowly out of them from the world they endure each day.

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#30. I was just a drifter, a writer of what I saw.

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#31. The same things that make you unique in this world, make you a target for the archers consumed by fear and jealousy.

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#32. Destroying the planet is like stepping from a moving train and thinking it will all work out.

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#33. 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.

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#34. For the writer that has truly suffered, their pen, their words, their art will become as important as breathing.

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#35. 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.

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#36. 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.

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#37. 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.

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#38. I write novellas, short books, whatever. I set out to write a good story not write a dictionary.

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

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

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#41. 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.

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

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