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

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

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

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

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

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

The problems of our country are very fast to recognize.
Peter Bichsel

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

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.
Peter Bichsel