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I always like to have faith that an audience will suspend their disbelief, if you present it to them in the right way. I find it peculiar when people scoff at one bold idea, and yet they'll then turn over and watch a man travel through time in a police phone box. I think it's just how you present the idea.
My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.
In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.
The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there's something really big going on.
I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under the constraints imposed by our biology and history. When an author is free to suspend the constraints, it's tennis without a net.
The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
When you have a movie about people landing from planet Neptune, you suspend disbelief. I totally get it. But I like doing things that happen in real life.
To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
You can't really do a big character in an action film; you're already suspending your disbelief in the action, then to suspend your disbelief in the character is too much.