Pastoral Resources

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

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.

This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole.

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.

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.

The show has become my therapy.

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.

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.

My son does a little photography, but he's not involved the way I was.

I don't need the money I generate from photography to support myself.

Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.

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.