I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

- Frederik Pohl

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 cigar…

- Frederik Pohl

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 …

- Frederik Pohl

The future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means that the writer should be able to convince the…

- Frederik Pohl

You don't think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating, maybe even exponential curve? It ta…

- Frederik Pohl

That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the …

- Frederik Pohl

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

- Frederik Pohl

Science fiction is the very literature of change.

- Frederik Pohl

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

- Frederik Pohl