Tucker Max Best Quotes & Sayings

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

It [eBook] is like introducing the machine gun to a revolutionary war. It changes everything. If you can reach your fans directly without having to go through a middle man, the entire economics of the publishing business changes. — Tucker Max

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

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

I am Shiva, Destroyer of Worlds. — Tucker Max

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

If people try to judge you or shame you for doing safe, consensual things that make you happy, I can guarantee you they're bad people. — Tucker Max

People have proven over and over that they will read if they are given something they like. The problem with reading is not reading, its that almost everything out there sucks. For so long, publishing has been run by a cartel of snobby pseudo-intellectual failed writers, and the resulting output has reflected not what the market wants, but what they think people are supposed to read. — Tucker Max

Probably the best explanation for my success and other Internet writers, is that we're tapping a genre or a niche out there that needs to be filled and isn't. — Tucker Max

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

Social media for the majority of companies is not about helping customers or improving products. — Tucker Max

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art. — Tucker Max

The hardest lesson I've had to learn in my life is that my intelligence is inversely correlated to my humility. The more I thought I knew, the less I actually knew. — Tucker Max

Women always want the guy that other women want. — Tucker Max

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. — Tucker Max

That's the beauty of alcohol. If you don't remember it, it didn't happen. — Tucker Max

Earl "The Goat" Manigault was probably the greatest basketball player of all time, but Michael Jordan is universally regarded as the best ever. This is because The Goat only did it at Rucker Park, while Michael did it where it mattered: in front of the world. — Tucker Max

Credit, youre jewish, your best friend is black, and your girlfriend is a cheating whore. Even if I wore gay, I'd still have it better than you. — Tucker Max

I try to explain to people that the only way to be cool is to be who you truly are, and the only way to live life is to do the things that you want to do and be the person that you want to be no matter who that is or what that is or how you have to do it. That's the only way you can be genuinely happy. — Tucker Max

I wish I could bottle the seductive look she gave me so I could sniff it when I jack off. — Tucker Max

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

I feel like taking her money AND her soul is not cool. One or the other. — Tucker Max

No one has it all figured out, especially not the people who are acting like they do and judging you because of it. Pretending to be something you aren't because you're trying to please a bunch of judgmental hypocrites and shitheads is not the way to be happy. Living the life you want to live is. It really is that simple. — Tucker Max

9:00: I don't know what I want. I just point at the Dollar Menu and say, 'Give me all of that. — Tucker Max

The general intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere just above "functionally retarded". — Tucker Max

When your buddy tells you a movie is good, that's worth 2,000 commercials. — Tucker Max

No one has probably helped me more with my narcissism than my dog. — Tucker Max

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

The idea that guys should walk into a bar and confidently initiate contact and then seduce a woman based on a short term conversation is a toxic cultural myth that robs guys of self-confidence and that holds them up to an unrealistic standard that they have to become a super-extraverted narcissist in order to 'score with women' — Tucker Max

I stop paying attention because as much as I love beauty, I hate stupidity, and seeing the two combined pisses me off. — Tucker Max

There are fun nights, there are crazy nights, and then there are those nights that make men legends. — Tucker Max

Think about it: If you don't have any actual, tangible skills, then how can you do anything? You may be laughing and nodding, but do you realize how few people, when asked the basic question, 'What can you do?' stumble on the answer and have nothing to say? Most people. — Tucker Max

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

I'm a human. Every human is flawed. I might be flawed in different ways than some people, or worse ways than some people, or better ways than some people. — Tucker Max

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

Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear. — Tucker Max