Peter Bichsel Quotes

"I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody."
- Peter Bichsel
(Related: Writer)

"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."
- Peter Bichsel
(Related: Poems, Writer)

"Writers let themselves be enticed by the language."
- Peter Bichsel
(Related: Language, Writers)

"The problems of our country are very fast to recognize."
- Peter Bichsel
(Related: Country, Problems)

"Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts."
- Peter Bichsel
(Related: Literature)

"Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship."
- Peter Bichsel
(Related: Heart, Democracy, Dictatorship, Parliament, Want)

"I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging."
- Peter Bichsel
(Related: Departure, World)

"It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile."
- Peter Bichsel
(Related: People, Poets, Want)