Sign in with Facebook
“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
―
―
“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body; it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things. If it is heeded in time, danger may be averted; if it is suppressed, a fatal distemper may develop."
[New Statesman interview, 7 January 1939]”
―
[New Statesman interview, 7 January 1939]”
―
“If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.”
― Maxims
― Maxims
Scofield’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Scofield’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Scofield
Lists liked by Scofield
