Peter Bichsel Quotes

Switzerland, Writer
March 24, 1935

Peter Bichsel (born 24 March 1935) is a popular Swiss writer and journalist representing modern German literature. He was a member of the Gruppe Olten.

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

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

Peter Bichsel
- Country

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

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

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

Peter Bichsel
- People
Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.

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

Peter Bichsel
- World

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

Peter Bichsel
- Teacher