Willing Suspension Of Disbelief Quotes

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

Elena Ferrante

#2. I prefer to think of faith, as Coleridge says of poetry, not as the taking up of belief but as "the willing suspension of disbelief" ... a willingness to be open, to explore, to investigate.

Sharon Salzberg

#3. The generation of atmosphere, the aura of the uncanny, is one of the most important secrets of magic. It contributes to the willing suspension of disbelief, the feeling that, within the circle, or in the presence of the magical shrine, anything may happen.

Doreen Valiente

#4. The grocery store poets do everything they can to encourage us in our willing suspension of disbelief.

Michael Pollan

#5. That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#6. It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

Lionel Trilling

#7. Willing Suspension of Disbelief

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#8. The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

Edward Norton

#9. Suspension of disbelief and that whole question is part of the heart of the 'Leaves of Grass'movie.

Edward Norton

#10. The whole film genre is one of deceit. It is the suspension of disbelief. That's what all theater and all film is based on.

Rhys Ifans

#11. 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. I've just never been able to make that jump, really. I like things to be more organic.

Marc Maron

#12. Somehow I could lose myself in the ocean the same way I could lose myself in a good book. Maybe it was because both involved suspension
a suspension of weight, a suspension of disbelief
a willingness to surrender to something greater than oneself.

Eve Marie Mont

#13. Some popular quotations smell of airless closets. They exhale the stale imagination of the intellectual lower middle class. "Suspension of disbelief" has become one of them. Dressed up as a scintillating double negation, it serves the pedestrian notion of art as illusion.

Rudolf Arnheim

#14. Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

Stephen Sondheim

#15. Characters more or less present themselves to me. I don't know their origins. I think if I did, if I seemed to myself to fabricate them, I could not induce suspension of disbelief in myself in the way writing fiction requires.

Marilynne Robinson

#16. I want to regard my public as infinitely intelligent, as understanding notions of the suspension of disbelief and as realising all the time that this is not a slice of life, this is openly a film.

Peter Greenaway

#17. The infrastructure of the US is a long-term suspension of disbelief that such things won't be exploded deliberately by people who don't create anything.

Dave Winer

#18. But the suspension of disbelief could only go so far.

Cassandra Clare

#19. When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the "suspension of disbelief" and activity of the imagination that are available in novels and movies.

John Granger