Peter Bichsel Quotes

#1. Many people confuse a Dom personality with a Dom's position of authority. The two are not exactly the same or interchangeable. A true Dom dominates. Plain and simple. And by dominate, we mean does what it takes to get a job done. Even if that means submit.

Lucian Bane

#2. What is the half-life of information? Does its rate of decay correlate with the medium that conveys it? Pixels need power. Paper is unstable in fire and flood. Letters carved in stone are more durable, although not so easily distributed, but inertia can be a good thing.

Ruth Ozeki

#3. Will they cower?' Kym asked.

'Tons of cowering! Plus your name in the summer programme. A custom-designed banner. A cabin at Camp Half-Blood. Two shrines. I'll even throw in a Kymopoleia action figure.'

'No!' Polybotes wailed. 'Not merchandising rights!

Rick Riordan

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

Peter Bichsel

#5. The problems of our country are very fast to recognize.

Peter Bichsel

#6. They say a name expresses the thing it stands for, but I wonder if it isn't the other way around - the thing gets more and more like its name.

Haruki Murakami

#7. Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.

Peter Bichsel

#8. I grew up in the East Village with a lot of old people in my building, and I'm not sure if they lost their sense of smell over the years, but they always seemed to smell like they poured a bottle of perfume on themselves. I never want to become that person.

Sarah Hyland

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

Peter Bichsel

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

Peter Bichsel

#11. It's such a wonder how people can diminish the worth of your relationship.

Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

#12. Any photographed human being is always a photograph.

Luigi Ghirri

#13. Stress and pain go down the drain. Leave me feeling good again.

Deborah Blake

#14. Well it's hard to remember who, but I drunk dial a lot.

Adam Garcia

#15. Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.

Peter Bichsel

#16. Our knowledge is limited. However, reading augments our knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. using large amounts of artificial sweeteners may lead to adverse health side effects.

Peggy Annear

#18. If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

Peter Bichsel

#20. 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

#21. Simply by making the effort to start something, you will be miles ahead of almost everyone else.

Gary Player

#22. It's hard to experience desire when you're weighted down by concern.

Esther Perel

#23. Maybe we learn to live our lives by understanding, firsthand, how not to live them.

Jodi Picoult

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

Peter Bichsel