A biography for Peter Bichselhasn’t been written yet.
“I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.”
“Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.”
“The problems of our country are very fast to recognize.”
“That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.”
“Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.”
“It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.”
“Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.”
“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.”
“I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging.”