Zitat des Tages von Tucker Max:
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.
Publishing companies are like schoolyard bullies that can't even fight well.
When your buddy tells you a movie is good, that's worth 2,000 commercials.
Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.
I'm a decent-looking guy, but I've never walked into a room and got a girl because of how I looked. Look, I'm never excluded because of my looks. I just don't stand out.
At some point in their life, everyone thinks they should go to law school. You may in fact think you want to go to law school now.
I'm not West Coast at all. I was born in Atlanta, but I grew up in Kentucky, outside of Lexington, in Winchester.
Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in the future.
No one has probably helped me more with my narcissism than my dog.
The haters always scream the loudest.
The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around me.
Whatever your favorite food is, if you eat it every day for a month, you're going to get sick of it.
The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't.
Even if I was a Republican, George Bush would have pushed me out of that party.
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.
I'm never going to be Tolstoy.
The point of psychoanalysis is to really understand the roots of your behavior. Understand why you are doing the things you're doing - and connect your unconscious to your conscious.
I've come to learn that what really matters is the relationship, the quality of the relationship.
Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.
My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.
A personal brand is relevant to people who sell or create something relevant to who they are as a person. If you're not in that boat, which most people are not, personal branding makes no sense.
You know, even big-time academics kind of have groupies. Anyone with any sort of fame. So, like, in your micro-world, or in your niche, you're kind of like a celebrity.
My parents got divorced when I was around a year old. My dad was essentially a nonentity in my life until I got to be about 16 or so. My mom was a flight attendant for PanAm, so I moved all over the world. London, Rio de Janeiro.
There is no number or level of success that would make me think, 'Wow, I didn't think that was possible.'
I started my blog in 2002. That was pre-MySpace, pre-Facebook. That was back before newspapers realized they were going out of business. That was back when no one gave any credence to Internet writers.
If you like to argue just for the sake of being contentious, you shouldn't pick a job based on this unresolved emotional issue of yours, you should get counseling for it.
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.
If you don't have a job right now, and you have a computer and a basic intelligence level, I guarantee you can get a great job, paying really well, in less than three months. How? Learn to program.
Having a soft major is nowhere near the career death sentence that so many make it out to be. The world is changing, and the U.S. economy with it. Our economy is shifting to a service- and information-based economy, and soft majors are already becoming more and more valuable.
