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