Bret Harte Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: August 25, 1836 - May 6, 1902
Birthday: August 25
Death: May 6
Besides writing, I have been teaching myself to 'develop' my own photographic plates, and I haven't a stick of clothing or an exposed finger that isn't stained. I sit for hours in a dark-room feeling as if I were a very elderly Faust at some dreadful incantation, and come out of it, blinding at the light, like a Bastille prisoner. And yet I am not successful!
topic: Teaching, Writing, Successful, Faust, Bastille
