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

- Peter Bichsel

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

- Peter Bichsel

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

- Peter Bichsel

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.

- Peter Bichsel

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

- Peter Bichsel

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

- 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 dict…

- Peter Bichsel