Swiss Quotes by Peter Bichsel

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

— Peter Bichsel

The problems of our country are very fast to recognize.

— Peter Bichsel

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

Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less…

— Peter Bichsel

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

— Peter Bichsel

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.

— 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

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

— Peter Bichsel