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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.

Frederik Pohl

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: November 26, 1919 - September 2, 2013

Topics

Science Care Enough You Want Try

I have agreed to lend my voice to Nature's Guard, an animated series which hopefully will go into production in the near future. The characters are all animals. My voice will be for a character named Longtail.

Jeremy Bulloch

Nature Future Character Voice Go

I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I had a series of personal losses. My mother died. A relationship that I was in came to end, and a variety of other things went awry.

Andrew Solomon

Mother Relationship Myself Thought

I've been devoting quite a bit of my time to harmonic studies on my own, in libraries and places like that. I've found you've got to look back at the old things and see them in a new light.

John Coltrane

Time Light You Look Back New

My grandfather always told me, 'You know you're American first, but you're a Greek-American, which makes you a better American.' It sounds sort of old-world and very sweet, but what he meant was that you should embrace those things that are most special and different about you.

Melina Kanakaredes

Me Sweet Better American You Know

Poverty is a relationship that involves a lot of folks, rich and poor alike. I was looking for something that brought a lot of different people in a room. Eviction does that, embroils landlords and tenants, lawyers and social workers.

Matthew Desmond

Relationship People Looking Rich

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Stephen Hawking

Space Universe Special Understand Us

We're surrounded by big problems and people who have been attacking the same big problems for years and years and years and years, and often they're not getting anywhere.

Stephen J. Dubner

People Problems Same Years Big Been

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Toni Morrison

Nature Water Memory Trying Perfect

I don't go to fancy Michelin-starred restaurants often.

Mary Berry

Go Fancy Often Restaurants

Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium in it - because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced.

Molly Ivins

Freedom Great Water Men Fun Texas

Someone who directs a film, they have to see the overall picture, and they have to get the best performances out of the actors.

Joshua Bell

Best Picture Someone See Out Film

You always need a textural landscape. I think that's what fashion is about, and I think when you come to a brand and you're trying to re-instill its history, the history only comes through being personal.

Jonathan Anderson

History Fashion Think Brand You