Pastoral Resources

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.

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

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.

Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.