Frederik Pohl Quotes

My Old English Buddy, John Rackham, Wrote And Told Me What Made Science Fiction Different From All Other Kinds Of Literature - Science Fiction Is Written According To The Science Fiction Method.

In Terms Of Stories I Would Buy For A Science Fiction Magazine, If They Take Place In The Future, That Might Do It.

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 Much, At Least Not Consciously. But The Fact That They Are Methodical Does Relate Them.

My First Thought Was Always A Cigarette. It Still Is, But I Haven't Cheated.

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 Me, It's Like Retiring.

I'm Pretty Catholic About What Constitutes Science Fiction.

What Were We Doing Here? Traveling Hundreds Or Thousands Of Light-years, To Break Our Hearts?

I Was Thinking Of Writing A Little Foreword Saying That History Is, After All, Based On People's Recollections, Which Change With Time.

It's Clear That Science And Science Fiction Have Overlapping Populations.

Advertising Reaches Out To Touch The Fantasy Part Of People's Lives. And You Know, Most People's Fantasies Are Pretty Sad.

When I Sit Down To The Feast Of Life ... I'm So Busy Planning On How To Pick Up The Check, And Wondering What The Other People Think Of Me For Paying It, And Wondering If I Have Enough Money In My Pocket To Pay The Bill, That I Don't Get Around To Eating.

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 A Love Story.