Julia Glass

My first draft is always way too long; my books start out with delusions of 'War and Peace' - and must be gently disabused. My editor is brilliant at taking me to the point where I do all the necessary cutting on my own. I like to say she's a midwife rather than a surgeon.

American Novelist

Elvis Mitchell

The picture is being promoted as Disney's 'Spirited Away,' although seeing just 10 minutes of this English version of a hugely popular Japanese film will quickly disabuse any discerning viewer of the notion that it is a Disney creation.

American Critic

Morgan Freeman

I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.

American Actor

Shawn Achor

Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful or rich will make you happy.

American Educator

Alexei Sayle

I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.

British Comedian

Joyce Maynard

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.

American Writer

Barry Hannah

I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused.

Use 'disabuse' to indicate that someone is being corrected, not just informed.

Correcting Beliefs

'Disabuse' often carries a serious tone, implying an important error is being addressed.

Serious Tone

Often used when someone is directly correcting an individual's specific mistaken belief.

Personal Correction

 Knowing a lot of stuff is there to help you get to more ignorance. So knowledge is a big subject, but I would say ignorance is a bigger one. So this leads us to maybe think about, a little bit about, some of the models of science that we tend to use, and I'd like to disabuse you of some of them.

Stuart Firestein: The...

 those of you who have come here tonight expecting to get a window into the sort of deep, symphonic emotional resonance that sets up between a professional photographer and a writer, this is the moment where I disabuse you of that delusion,