Frederik Pohl Quotes & Sayings
20 most famous Frederik Pohl quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American writer who passed away on 2 September, 2013.
“My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.”
“Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).”
“You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens.”
“The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.”
“That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens.”
“I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.”
“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.”
“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.”
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