Tucker Max Quotes - Page 5

Look at the scope of writers who sell stuff. I'm at the very top of the power curve in terms of sales.

Two girls called me closed minded. I tell them that they are so open-minded their brains leaked out.

Before you're famous it's stuff that seems like it'd be really cool, but once you get it, you realize it's not bad, but it's kind of hollow and meaningless.

The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't.

In training, there is no winning or losing. There is only learning.

The result of my hard work is that I'm financially independent, I have an amazing life, and I can do whatever I want. I don't have to answer to anybody.

Great careers are getting easier to find and audition for, but harder to keep.

I'm not West Coast at all. I was born in Atlanta, but I grew up in Kentucky, outside of Lexington, in Winchester.

I hated being a lawyer and I wanted to like myself and like my job.

You can't do anything yourself on TV... unless you have a LOT of money, but you can do an independent movie.

Leave it up to hipster nerds to pretend to hate something that they actually want

I'm not even the coolest one of my friends. I'm just the guy who sat down and wrote everything down. Like I know plenty of people who do crazier stuff than I do.

General reader feedback is usually pretty worthless. 99% of people give feedback that is irrelevant, stupid, or just flat out wrong. But that 1% of people who give good feedback are invaluable.

I've never really had a media edifice supporting me.

I sold a million books because I have a lot of fans, not because people hate me.

We can't get kicked out of McDonald's! This is like the DMZ of drunk eating.

I have tons of fans in Canada. I've sold hundreds of thousands of books there.

I was stupid when I was 17 or 18. My thought process was that I thought that I was legitimately a hyper-genius, and so I wanted to go to the hardest academic school I could to see if I was really as smart as I thought I was.

Before I was famous, I already was the person that attracted and dealt with a lot of weirdos.

TV has a longer narrative, and TV's more like short stories. So there's less rules with TV; you can make it a little bit different. [With] movies, the medium has more constraints, so it was just about what stories are the most cinematic and the best resolution.

Theatrical success is predominantly two variables: who the distributor is and how much money they spend.

I take a lull from my CamelBak and choke at its potency. It tastes like bad decisions. It's perfect.

Fat girls aren’t real people.

Listen to authority figures because of their position, but only believe them if they can explain why.

I never felt pressured to create more stories, but dealing with people became really aggravating.