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Frederik Pohl Quotes: "A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam."

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



Frederik Pohl Quotes: "You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it."

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




Frederik Pohl Quotes: "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."

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

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




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

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



Frederik Pohl Quotes: "What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts?"

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



Frederik Pohl Quotes: "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."

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

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



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

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

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



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

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




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

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.



Frederik Pohl Quotes: "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 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 Quotes: "People as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research."

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



Frederik Pohl Quotes: "Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad."

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



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

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 Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Science fiction is the very literature of change."

Science fiction is the very literature of change.



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

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



Frederik Pohl Quotes: "The FDA just ordered them off the market. The glaze is supposed to be poison—provided you drink at least forty cups of tea out of one of them every day of your life for twenty years."

The FDA just ordered them off the market. The glaze is supposed to be poison—provided you drink at least forty cups of tea out of one of them every day of your life for twenty years.



Frederik Pohl Quotes: "The bump of ego on his skull had swollen large, so he saw the whole world in terms of what it could give him."

The bump of ego on his skull had swollen large, so he saw the whole world in terms of what it could give him.



Frederik Pohl Quotes: "I let myself flop - so gently, so slowly - into my one real chair and tried to make myself understand that I was on the doorstep of the universe."

I let myself flop - so gently, so slowly - into my one real chair and tried to make myself understand that I was on the doorstep of the universe.