73 Quotes by Frederik Pohl

It is not a cheap commodity, love. Some of us can have it and never face the bill, but only if someone else picks up the check.

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.

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.

That was an all-purpose IBM 3070. It took up half a room and still did not have enough capacity to do all the jobs demanded of it.

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.

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.