David Crane Quotes

Having your own character in a video game is pretty cool.

My whole life has been a bit like a Nintendo game.

It's pretty cool to see yourself on a video game.

I loved playing with friends and talking trash over 'FIFA' and 'Mario Kart.' Then, in the early stages of my professional career, I got into 'Assassin's Creed' and 'The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.'

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end.

I received rejection letters for ten years (one on a napkin, written in crayon.) I had all my rejection notices stored in a box. When the box was finally full I took it to the curb and set it on fire. The next day I went out and got a temp job.

Still humping the American Dream

We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn’t hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?

You can only kill disappointment with a new try.

Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.

Fruitless striving breeds less despair than inaction.

To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.

The triumph of hope over experience.

The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.

But I tried, didn't I? Goddamnit, at least I did that.

Success is buried on the other side of rejection.

If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

Everyone gets knocked back, no one rises smoothly to the top without hindrance. The ones who succeed are those who say, right, let’s give it another go.

Steadiness is coming up short 19 times and succeeding the twentieth.

When Time got rid of my column, I thought it was all over. It was really sad. And then, I just started pushing it to lots of places. And I thought someone would run my column, I thought it was popular, and no one wanted it.

For almost two months now I've been struggling away with no result.

If I fail, I try again, and again, and again

If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again!