Tucker Max Quotes - Page 4

Opinions are projections.

Communication is not what we say, but what you hear (which is a lesson I wish our educational system understood)

A lot of people think that since I'm drunk in my stories, I must be drunk 24 hours a day. What kind of stupid logic is that? It'd be like if you saw Michael Jordan at a restaurant and were like, "Why aren't you in your basketball uniform?" I leave out way more than I put in.

Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong.

Critics stopped being relevant when they stopped writing to inform and contextualize, and when they started writing to signal who they are, to display their identity by their stance on what they are writing about. Criticism should never be about the critic, but thats what it has become, and that’s why no one cares about them anymore.

It used to be that companies with industrial economies of scale created business success. Now, success will come from the information economies of scale, either the ones with complete breadth, or complete depth.

I tell the truth, and truth is the ultimate defense against libel.

It is hard for me to be vulnerable, because I never learned how to do that. I was never vulnerable in a safe way.

I've come to learn that what really matters is the relationship, the quality of the relationship.

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.

To my friends and people I care about, I'm a really nice guy. No one wants to read a story where I saw a cute puppy on the street and I petted it. I mean, that's not funny. I only write about the funny stuff.

I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore.

You can't fill your emails with crap, at least not with my friends, because they're brutal. If something sucks, they'll tell you.

Failure either ruins you, or turns you into the man you can become.

Hollywood, it's just like high school. Whoever is pretty and popular, everyone wants to be with.

I masterbate in the shower. My action figures judge me. Especially the Justice League.

I think that there's a lot of guys out there that want to read the equivalent of chick lit, but really there's not being much written for them.

Hey man, can you talk to dolphins and pilot whales with that huge forehead of yours?

I'm not some movie star relying on a studio. I have my own fans and I earned them.

Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.

One big lesson I learned from movie [making] was I don't do creative projects that I headline unless I have all the control. I can't deal with having to live with other people's screw ups, and that's just sort of the way the movie business works. The people with the money are in charge. Until I'm in charge, I don't want to play that game.

I was not developmentally disabled, but didn't mature at the same rate other kids did.

My buddies and I, we all went to law school together, and once we started working in different cities, we all did crazy stuff, and we'd write e-mails to each other about the stuff we would do. And my friends thought my e-mails were really funny and they said, "Dude, why don't you put this up on a Web site. You know people would love to read this."

My favorite random email I got was from some guy who wrote: "Mr. Max, with the hope of a six year old on the night before Christmas asking about Santa, I ask the same question: Do you really exist?