Peter Bichsel Quotations

I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging.

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.

Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.

That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.

It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.

The problems of our country are very fast to recognize.

Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.

Writers lock up themselves into their language. I locked up myself into my language situation, where only new high German is spoken.

With me it always concerns the first sentence, which I must find. That is an infinitely painful business. I observe badly. I have no visual memory.