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A good science fiction story ...

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

Frederik Pohl 27 quotes

That's what life is, just one...

That's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.

Frederik Pohl 27 quotes

For someone to be taken serio...

For someone to be taken seriously it was valuable to have the appearance of someone who deserved to be taken seriously.

Frederik Pohl 27 quotes

The future depicted in a good...

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 to convince the reader (and himself) that the wonders he is describing really can come true... and that gets tricky when you take a good, hard look at the world around you.

Frederik Pohl 27 quotes

On this day I want to tell yo...

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 27 quotes

I did that for 40 years or mor...

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 27 quotes

The science fiction method is ...

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

Frederik Pohl 27 quotes

You can't really predict the f...

You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it.

Frederik Pohl 27 quotes

A good science fiction story s...

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

Frederik Pohl 27 quotes

My first thought was always a ...

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

Frederik Pohl 27 quotes

When I sit down to the feast o...

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.

Frederik Pohl 27 quotes

That's what life is, just one ...

That's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.

Frederik Pohl 27 quotes

I was thinking of writing a li...

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 27 quotes

The big new development in my ...

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 27 quotes

They were two lovely choices. ...

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 27 quotes

Science fiction is the very li...

Science fiction is the very literature of change.

Frederik Pohl 27 quotes

The future depicted in a good ...

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 to convince the reader (and himself) that the wonders he is describing really can come true... and that gets tricky when you take a good, hard look at the world around you.

Frederik Pohl 27 quotes

That's really what SF is all a...

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 27 quotes

What were we doing here? Trave...

What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts?

Frederik Pohl 27 quotes

You can't trust reason. We thr...

You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.

Frederik Pohl 27 quotes

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