Peter Bichsel famous quotes

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

#Doe #Dear God #Drawers

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

#Writing #Language

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

#Writing #Said #Novel

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

#Departure #World

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

#People #Want #Strange

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

#Literature #Shirts

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

#Teacher

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

#Strong #Kings #Heart

There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.

Let's stop somebody from doing something! Everybody does too much.

Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.

Funny... I still can't believe in God." "Does that matter now?"..."He believes in you.

Dear God. She ached, wanting something that she knew was a sin. Wanting a man who was sin itself.

My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.

Years are not important, my dear.

Dear God, please let him have heard me. Please. Please. If you're up there. Somewhere.

Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.

I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands.