All Frederik Pohl Quotes
- That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science… All
- What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts? Break
- You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it. Ad
- You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it. All
- I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter… Any
- I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time. All
- The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For… Big
- The future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means that the writer should be… Able
- I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction. Catholic
- The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction. Dissection
- You don't think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating, maybe even exponential curve? It… Accelerating
- In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it. Buy
- If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can… Bradbury
- It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations. Clear
- I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very… Analogous
- My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is… According
- I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport. Book
- People as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research. Answer
- My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated. Cheated
- They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of… Chance
- On this day I want to tell you about, which will be about a thousand years from now, there were a boy, a girl and… Boy
- A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam. Able
- People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research. Answer
- Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific… Author
- A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction. Astrophysicists