Books Quote by Trista Day

“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