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Frederik Pohl Quotes

Frederik Pohl quotes

American Writer November 26, 1919

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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 my mind. Frederik Pohl
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. Frederik Pohl
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. Frederik Pohl
I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time. Frederik Pohl
Wealth ... or death. Those were the choices Gateway offered. Humans had discovered this artificial spaceport, full of working interstellar ships left behind by the mysterious, vanished Heechee. Their destinations are preprogrammed. They are easy to operate, but impossible to control. Some came back with discoveries which made their intrepid pilots rich; others returned with their remains barely identifiable. It was the ultimate game of Russian roulette, but in this resource-starved future... Frederik Pohl
Frederik Pohl quote: "You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession..."
You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it. Frederik Pohl
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 fiction is the very literature of change. In fact, it is the only such literature we have. Frederik Pohl
Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great). Frederik Pohl
I was worried about sex," he went on. "But you know what, Sulie? It's like being told I can't have any caviar for the next couple years. I don't even like caviar. And when you come right down to it, I don't want sex right now. I supposed you punched that into the computer? 'Cut down sex drive, increase euphoria'? Anyway, it finally penetrated my little brain that I was just making trouble for myself, worrying about whether I could get along without something I really didn't want. It's... Frederik Pohl
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. Frederik Pohl
A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas. Frederik Pohl
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 - now, computer - lit up a cigarette. Frederik Pohl
And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of the waters; and the name of the star is called wormwood; and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. Frederik Pohl
Frederik Pohl quote: "I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of..."
I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport. Frederik Pohl
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 things about rocketry and so on, really suck. Frederik Pohl

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