Quotes by Frederik Pohl

Frederik Pohl

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

Able

Fiction Stories

Jam

Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people’s lives. And you know, most people’s fantasies are pretty sad.

Advertising

Fantasy

People

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

Appearance

Taken

Valuable

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.

Block

Morning

Typewriters

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.

Doe

Scientific Method

Thinking

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

People

Thinking

Writing

I’m doing a book, ‘Chasing Science,’ about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

Book

Pleasure

Sports

I’m pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

Catholic

Fiction

Science 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.

Rays

Trying

Writing

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

Fiction

Magazines

Stories

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Able

Advertising

Appearance

Block

Book

Boys

Can Do

Catholic

Cheating

Choices

Cigarette

Clear

Curves

Development

Different

Diploma

Dissection

Doe

Fantasy

Fiction

Fiction Stories

Firsts

Four

Girl

Giving Up

Graduates

Heart

Jam

Life

Light

Literature

Long Ago

Looks

Magazines

Mean

Method

Morning

New Day

People

Pleasure

Population

Profession

Rays

Real

Reason

Research

Science

Science Fiction

Scientific Method

Sports

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Quotes by Frederik Pohl

Frederik Pohl

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

Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people’s lives. And you know, most people’s fantasies are pretty sad.

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

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.

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.

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 doing a book, ‘Chasing Science,’ about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

I’m pretty catholic about what constitutes science 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.

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

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