Frederik Pohl Quotes

My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.
Frederik Pohl

Thought, Cigarette, Cheated

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

Change, Time, History

That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens.
Frederik Pohl

Live, Happens, Method

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

Time, May, Enough

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.
Frederik Pohl

Science, Reading, Fiction

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

Morning, Down, Writer

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.
Frederik Pohl

Science, Fact, Scientific

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.
Frederik Pohl

Science, Book, Chasing

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.
Frederik Pohl

Science, Pretty, Fiction

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 write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.
Frederik Pohl

Science, Care, Hard

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.
Frederik Pohl

Future, Science, Place

It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.
Frederik Pohl

Science, Clear, Fiction

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

Science, Different, Made

People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.
Frederik Pohl

Science, Research, Ask

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

Great, Science, Said

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

Him, Run, Known

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

Life, Big, Longer

The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten.
Frederik Pohl

Reading, Head, Stories

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.
Frederik Pohl

Science, Fiction, Method

You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens.
Frederik Pohl

Different, Away, Around

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: November 26, 1919

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