Character Quote by Marilynne Robinson

I'm not a moron, but science fiction to me requires a suspension of disbelief and honest curiosity or fascination in that kind of bullshit.…

— Marc Maron

There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

It takes a certain kind of mind to narrate, to work through character motivation, to be unforgiving to one's writer-self when it comes down…

— Cate Marvin

Those who write need that "willing suspension of disbelief ", as Coleridge called it.

— Elena Ferrante

There should be a name for this, for the process whereby one knows one is being yanked and concedes it has been done successfully…

— Peggy Noonan

Some popular quotations smell of airless closets. They exhale the stale imagination of the intellectual lower middle class. "Suspension of disbelief" has become one…

— Rudolf Arnheim

The generation of atmosphere, the aura of the uncanny, is one of the most important secrets of magic. It contributes to the willing suspension…

— Doreen Valiente

To me, when there's movies that are about, you know, guys named Hell Boy, and you know, the issue that they have with our…

— Seth Rogen

We're getting to the point where we're impinging on democratic institutions in this country and I think, you know, it takes a certain -…

— William Weld

I definitely prefer the single camera better. For me it's the simple fact that I enjoy working in front of an audience, but when…

— Jonathan Groff

I want to regard my public as infinitely intelligent, as understanding notions of the suspension of disbelief and as realising all the time that…

— Peter Greenaway

It's absolutely fine when Wile E. Coyote walks in with a band-aid on his head, after a 3,000-pound rock is dropped on him. That…

— Johnny Depp