Book Quote by Christopher Koch

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

— Don DeLillo

Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools…

— Bernard-Henri Levy

My book collection is primarily in America, since that's where I've lived most of my life.

— Terri Windling

All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear of that…

— Jo Nesbo

The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me…

— Bill Bryson

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

— Neil Gaiman

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and…

— Jose Saramago

I have a European frame of mind and Europe is my home.

— Andrea Bocelli

There weren't too many books featuring other cultures and countries when I was growing up as an immigrant kid here in the States.

— Mitali Perkins

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

— William Dean Howells

Europe is a rapidly changing place, on every level. Immigration, post-communist transitions, the unification, steady presence of war and conflict, the inescapable challenges to…

— Aleksandar Hemon

I believe that all the euphoria about Europe has led many of us to forget that Europe is a conglomerate of different entities and…

— Margrethe II of Denmark