Mary Antin Quotes

I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.

I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography.

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.

My name is Daniel, and this is the first volume of my life story, which, hopefully, will be a very long and distinguished one. Who should you read it? Very good question. Maybe because this is your planet, and you have a right to know what's actually happening on it.

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on different angles, and maybe one day I will, but you know what? There's time for that because I'd like to have the whole story.

I enjoy looking back on my life. I'm thinking seriously about starting to write about it.

In many ways, I've been writing personal stories all my life.

I do like reading autobiographies, if I'm honest.

When you write an autobiography, it has to be authentic.

I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.

I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though it's more about the psychology going on.

I have no plans to write an autobiography, I will leave that to others. I'm sure they will turn me into a homosexual or a Nazi spy or something else.

I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday, as I have thought of it, as I remember all the things from childhood on through the years, good ones and unpleasant ones, that is how they come out and that is how we have to take them.

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I've done. I find it strange, but I also feel it's my life and my story, and I guess I better be the one to get it on paper the way it actually happened.

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books - just in case I up and die.

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.

I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.