Tucker Max

“I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.”

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

“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.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

“If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.”

“Women always want the guy that other women want.”

“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.”

“I always laugh when people call me a misogynist. I... love women! Everything I do is to impress women. And if I hated women, why would half my fans be women?”

“Publishing companies are like schoolyard bullies that can't even fight well.”

“Helping reproductive services doesn't just help women in isolation. It helps men just as much.”

“Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.”

“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.”

“When your buddy tells you a movie is good, that's worth 2,000 commercials.”

“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.”

“If you make comedy, if you try and make comedy where no one gets upset or offended, you're going to fail.”

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

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

“When I give speeches at college, I don't tell stories, I talk about what it is to live your dreams and take the path less traveled.”