Quotes from Peter Bichsel

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

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

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

The problems of our country are very fast to recognize.

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.

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

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

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

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.

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

Am Mann blieb der alte Fuß lange im Bild läuten, um neun stellte das Fotoalbum, der Fuß fror auf und blätterte sich aus dem Schrank, damit er nicht an den Morgen schaute.