Mary Antin Quotes

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

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

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

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'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.

With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character.

I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life. You are a second away from saying it. You have no idea how much I love you.

I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).

I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

'M Train' is as close to knowing what I'm like as anything. I don't know exactly what the book is about. All and nothing, I suppose.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

Every minute you spend in your life is either spent bringing you closer to your goals or moving you away from your goals.

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.

I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

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

I told my whole life story in my book.

'Shadowboxer' was based on my life.

Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end.' I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week.

What makes writing a memoir difficult is harder to quantify. Is it learning to know when you're ready to talk about something? Is it seeing the structure in a lumpen mass of fact? Is it finding out what you were really like as other people saw you? Yes to each.

This is the best biography by me I have ever read.

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

I can't see an autobiography in my future. But who knows what might happen.

A film about my life? But I am not dead.