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“There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called 'fan fiction'.”
― Joss Whedon

“There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.”
― Margaret Atwood , Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing

“Never give up on your dreams, and never let anyone tell you that what you love is inconsequential or useless or a waste of time. Because if you love it? If that OTP or children's card game or abridged series or YA book or animated series makes you happy?
That is never a waste of time. Because in the end we're all just a bunch of weirdos standing in front of other weirdos, asking for their username.”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“I'm just really active in the fandom."
"What the fuck is 'the fandom'?”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Will grinned. “Some of these books are dangerous,�� he said. “It’s wise to be careful.”“One must always be careful of books,�� said Tessa, “and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”“I’m not sure a book has ever changed me,�� said Will. “Well, there is one volume that promises to teach one how to turn oneself into an entire flock of sheep—”“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry,�� said Tessa”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“You don’t have any friends, your sister dumped you, you’re a freak eater..and you’ve got some weird thing about Simon Snow."

"I object to every single thing you just said."

Reagan chewed. And frowned. She was wearing dark red lipstick.

"I have lots of friends," Cath said.

"I never see them."

"I just got here. Most of my friends went to other schools. Or they’re online."

"Internet friends don’t count."

"Why not?"

Reagan shrugged disdainfully.

"And I don’t have a weird thing with Simon Snow," Cath said. "I’m just really active in the fandom."

"What the fuck is ‘the fandom��?”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“I adore the way fan fiction writers engage with and critique source texts, by manipulating them and breaking their rules. Some of it is straight-up homage, but a lot of [fan fiction] is really aggressive towards the source text. One tends to think of it as written by total fanboys and fangirls as a kind of worshipful act, but a lot of times you’ll read these stories and it’ll be like ‘What if Star Trek had an openly gay character on the bridge?�� And of course the point is that they don’t, and they wouldn’t, because they don’t have the balls, or they are beholden to their advertisers, or whatever. There’s a powerful critique, almost punk-like anger, being expressed there—which I find fascinating and interesting and cool.”
― Lev Grossman

“We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.”
― Jerry Garcia

“You know," he said, "I keep wanting to say that it's like Simon Snow threw up in here... but it's more like someone else ate Simon Snow—like somebody went to an all-you-care-to-eat Simon Snow buffet—and then threw up in here.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Fandom, after all, is born of a balance between fascination and frustration: if media content didn't fascinate us, there would be no desire to engage with it; but if it didn't frustrate us on some level, there would be no drive to rewrite or remake it.”
― Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide

“And the thing about nerd culture being mainstream culture now means that there's no place to just be a nerd among other nerds - without being reminded that you're the nerd.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Kindred Spirits

“Everybody drinks," she said calmly. The Only Rational One.
"Your sister doesn't."
When rolled her eyes. "Forgive me, but I'm not going to spend my college years sitting soberly in my dorm room, writing about gay magicians."
"Objection," Cath said, reaching for a burrito.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“When people say the word "convention," they are usually referring to large gatherings of the employees of companies and corporations who attend a mass assembly, usually in a big hotel somewhere, for the purpose of pretending to learn stuff when they are in fact enjoying a free trip somewhere, time off work, and the opportunity to flirt with strangers, drink, and otherwise indulge themselves. The first major difference between a business convention and a fan-dom convention is that fandom doesn’t bother with the pretenses. They’re just there to have a good time. The second difference is the dress code�� the ensembles at a fan convention tend to be considerably more novel.”
― Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

“Fandom is less like being in love than like being in love with love.”
― Michael Joseph-Gross

“My only companion from the outside world during nineteen years of isolation has been my personal hatred of Thursday Next. It's kind of like the old me suddenly taking over, and I promised myself that this was how I would act if I ever saw you.'
'I have the same thing, but with Tom Stoppard,' I said.
'You'd kill Tom Stoppard?'
'Not at all. I promised myself many years ago that I would throw myself at his feet and scream "I'm not worthy!" if I ever met him, so now if we're ever at the same party or something, I have to be at pains to avoid him. It would be undignified, you see—for him and for me.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Woman Who Died A Lot

“You can't be like pop stars, but you can be part of their story. You can be their fan.”
― Simon Cheshire, Plastic Fantastic

“She definitely wasn't what I thought she was.'

'She wasn't a maniacal fan, you mean?'

'She was a maniacal fan, but I don't think the maniacal fans are what I thought they were. Well, not all of them, anyway.'

'They're just a bit normal, really,' I say.

'Or we're all weird.'

'You can say that again.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“Sometimes fans needed to be caged, for the good of everyone.”
― Goldy Moldavsky, Kill the Boy Band

“As fans continue to gather both on- and offline, it’s important for us to remember what brings us together �� the evolving and shifting story, where there is something for everyone to love and which we love in our own ways.”
― Talia Franks, Adventures Across Space and Time: A Doctor Who Reader

“The show is meant to encompass the universe and has infinite potential, so why should it be focused around representing only certain kinds of people? The show has made increasing efforts towards diversity and inclusion and making fans feel seen, but so much work is yet to be done.”
― Talia Franks, Adventures Across Space and Time: A Doctor Who Reader

“Whoever says TV isn't worthwhile isn't watching the right shows.”
― K.A. Applegate, The Journey

“There were as many styles of fandom as there were fans. Some people worshipped every move their oshi made, while others thought discernment made the true fan. There were those who had a romantic interest in their oshi but no interest in their oshi’s work; others who had no such feelings but sought a direct connection through engaging on social media; people who enjoyed their oshi’s output but didn’t care about the gossip; those who found fulfillment in supporting the oshi financially; others who valued being part of a fan community.
My angle was simply to keep trying to understand him, as a person and as an artist. I wanted to see the world through his eyes.”
― Rin Usami, Idol, Burning

“There have been so many calls for empathy, inspection, and nuanced understanding on behalf of the angry men the internet has raised, but there have been far fewer for the fangirls whose beliefs are far more convoluted.”
― Kaitlyn Tiffany, Everything I Need I Get from You

“It is inappropriate now to make fun of girls for screaming or boy bands for existing or anybody for liking anything. [... But] Not all women are "our future doctors, lawyers, mothers, presidents," I would love to tell Harry Styles. Not all women keep the world going! And it is not, in fact, okay to like whatever you want. Some stuff is genuinely bad, like Mark Zuckerberg or the Harry Styles song "Woman.”
― Kaitlyn Tiffany, Everything I Need I Get from You

“[Fandom] should be celebrated for what it can provide in individual lives, but it should also be taken seriously for what it can do at scale - not because I like it or because being a girl is cool now, but because fans are connecting based on affinity and instinct and participating in hyperconnected networks that they built for one purpose but can use for many others. We need to know what fandom can do and what it can't, and we need to figure out who might try to manipulate it and why.”
― Kaitlyn Tiffany, Everything I Need I Get from You

“YOU're just what he'd have dreamed himself to be. You - he - hath to write me long letters, full of corny humor, to my Rockettalk Department, and you called me Rocky, and you didn't like our concerts because the monsters weren't horrible enough -'
He stopped. And again his mouth fell open.”
― Fredric Brown, "FREDRIC BROWN" BOOKS: What Mad Universe / Space on My Hands / Honeymoon in Hell

“YOU're just what he'd have dreamed himself to be. You - he - hath to write me long letters, full of corny humor, to my Rockettalk Department, and you called me Rocky, and you didn't like our covers because the monsters weren't horrible enough -'
He stopped. And again his mouth fell open.”
― Fredric Brown

“YOU're just what he'd have dreamed himself to be. You - he - had to write me long letters, full of corny humor, to my Rockettalk Department, and you called me Rocky, and you didn't like our covers because the monsters weren't horrible enough -'
He stopped. And again his mouth fell open.”
― Fredric Brown

“YOU're just what he'd have dreamed himself to be. You - he - used write me long letters, full of corny humor, to my Rockettalk Department, and you called me Rocky, and you didn't like our covers because the monsters weren't horrible enough'
He stopped. And again his mouth fell open.”
― Fredric Brown

“YOU're just what he'd have dreamed himself to be. You - he - used to write me long letters, full of corny humor, to my Rockettalk Department, and you called me Rocky, and you didn't like our covers because the monsters weren't horrible enough'
He stopped. And again his mouth fell open.”
― Fredric Brown