Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is…

“To quote French author François Mauriac, ‘Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who your are' is true enough, but I'd know…

— Sarah Wendell

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me…

— Francois Mauriac

Better to be told the truth and hurt for a moment then to be told what you want to hear and hurt forever.

— Anonymous

There is a young fella who works for me, named Brian Unkeless, who's very smart. We're a very small company that has been Brian…

— Nina Jacobson

Whenever I was encouraged by my elders to pick up a book, I was often told, 'Read so as to know the world.' And…

— Hisham Matar

Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three.

— Diana Gabaldon

“Books were my hobby, even as a child,' he told me. 'I read about every book in Milkwaukee Public Library before I was 15...Some…

— Ruth Brandon

Some secrets, she thought, were better told; some were better left the burden of the carrier, that they might not cause pain to others.

— Cassandra Clare

“All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the…

— Katherine Ann Porter

You told me that I can find someone better than you. I told you that you were right, that I could find a better…

— LJD

“I often forget that other people's stories aren't simply introductions to my own more engaging, more dramatic, more relevant, and better-told tales, but rather…

— Will Schwalbe

“We learned about life from the books they told us not to read.”

— Antoinette Ingoldsby

It is better to be told a hurtful truth than to be told a comforting lie.

— Azgraybebly Josland

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way

— Isaac Rosenberg

“IF YOU TELL ME WHAT YOU READ I'LL TELL YOU THE WAY YOU THINK.”

— Mouloud Benzadi