73 Quotes by 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.