Quotes by Peter Bichsel

• 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.
• 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.
• The problems of our country are very fast to recognize.
• Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.
• I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging.
• It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.