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“It's more than fandom when a story touches you so hard that you wish the characters were your family”
― Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

“Infatuation is irrational but it can be a precursor to introspection. The experience of bodily joy is an invitation to reconsider the conditions that hold you away from it most of the time. Screaming at pop music is not direct action, and screaming does not make a person a revolutionary, or even resistant, but what screaming can and does do is punctuate prolonged periods of silence.”
― Kaitlyn Tiffany, Everything I Need I Get from You

“being a fan isn’t always about the thing you’re a fan of. okay, well it sort of is, but there is so much more to it than just going online and screaming that you love something. being a fan has given me people to talk to about the things that i like for the last five years. being a fan has made me better friends online than i’ve ever encountered in real life; it has entered me into a community where people are joined in love and passion and hope and joy and escape. being a fan has given me a reason to wake up, something always to look forward to, something to dream about while i’m trying to fall asleep”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“What begins as taste becomes religion”
― Matthew Pearl, The Dante Club

“Idol groups generally assigned each member an official color, which would be used for the light sticks that fans would hold up to show your support at a performance or for other individual merch. My oshi's was blue, so I systematically surrounded myself with everything blue. Just being in a blue space made me feel calm.”
― Rin Usami, Idol, Burning

“The extraordinary thing is this: that the moment you make a story or create an image that finds favour with an audience, you’ve effectively lost it. It toddles off, the little bastard; it becomes the property of the fans. It’s they who create around it their own mythologies; who make sequels and prequels in their imagination; who point out the inconsistencies in your plotting. I can envisage no greater compliment. What more could a writer or a film maker ever ask, than that their fiction be embraced and become part of the dream-lives of people who it’s likely he’ll never meet?”
― Clive Barker, Clive Barker's Hellraiser Vol. 1

“No use provoking the die-hard fans if you didn’t have to.”
― Danika Stone, Internet Famous

“At the same time, whenever a group of people comes together, there are issues of social standing, popularity, norms and identity on which they will inevitably not agree. Fandom is no exception.”
― Lynn S. Zubernis, Fandom At The Crossroads: Celebration, Shame and Fan/Producer Relationships

“This book is dedicated to everyone who has ever loved a story so much they could quote it.

There's nothing in the world quite like being part of a fandom. Never let anyone shame you for it. Read those books. Watch those movies. Binge those TV shows. Love those characters. Admire those celebrities. Write that fan-fiction. Draw that fan art. Go to those conventions. Sing that (on-hiatus, totally-not-broken-up) boy band at the top or your lungs. Do what makes you happy.”
― J.M. Darhower, Ghosted

“When she was doing other things—schoolwork, chores, exercising—Madi had to work to keep herself interested. Writing was the opposite. Finishing a blog always left her more ‘fullâ€� than empty.”
― Danika Stone

“Political fandom is much like entertainment fandom, many people invest money, emotions, and faith in a person they never met and foolishly expect that figure will always make them happy.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“Fandom takes care of my cat when I go on vacation. I sit in the waiting room to take fandom home after wisdom teeth removals. Fandom comes to get me at LAX in the middle of the night when my flight is delayed for eight hours and my luggage has been sent to Australia by mistake. I bring Liquid Plummer to fandom when its toilet explodes. Fandom brings me ginger cookies and sits with me on my stoop when I stupidly lock myself out of my apartment. Fandom, friendom, and familydom all run on a gradient line in my brain.”
― Allyson Beatrice, Will the Vampire People Please Leave the Lobby?: And Other True Adventures from a Life Online

“Past the age of four, it suddenly becomes unacceptable and weird to dress up as an elf, or fashion a cape out of an old blanket and pretend to "fly" down the sidewalk. It stops being cute at some point. However, it is acceptable for a fifty-two-year-old man to paint a bull's-eye on his giant gut and jiggle it while naked from the waist up in twenty-degree weather behind the goal post at a Packers game, while wearing a giant wedge of cheese on his head. People in traffic watching him walk into the game may point and laugh, but they're laughing with him. It's acceptable. He's a Great Big Fan Displaying Team Spirit!”
― Allyson Beatrice, Will the Vampire People Please Leave the Lobby?: And Other True Adventures from a Life Online

“While male media fans fear being perceived as not sexual enough, female fans fear being categorized as too sexual, or at the very least too emotional.”
― Lynn S. Zubernis, Fandom At The Crossroads: Celebration, Shame and Fan/Producer Relationships

“As the public shaming of the Twihard moms for their display of desire illustrates, one of the sources of shame for women is the culture's containment of and discomfort with female sexuality.”
― Lynn S. Zubernis, Fandom At The Crossroads: Celebration, Shame and Fan/Producer Relationships

“Fandom itself buys into the stereotype of the overly emotional, crazy fangirl on a regular basis. In fact, fans have internalized such a strong sense of shame that they've projected it onto the objects of their affection, expressing fear that the celebrities are either terrified or disgusted by their own female fans.”
― Lynn S. Zubernis, Fandom At The Crossroads: Celebration, Shame and Fan/Producer Relationships

“Cicioni suggests, as we will here, that rather than being a stimulus for social change, participating in fandom, including writing fanfiction, provides a safety valve for the stress women feel in their daily lives and relationships. Fandom is not only, as is often theorized, about subversive and societal change-but also about pleasurable and individual change, with challenges to existing norms and power relations more a byproduct than the source of fans' motivation and satisfaction.”
― Lynn S. Zubernis, Fandom At The Crossroads: Celebration, Shame and Fan/Producer Relationships

“When a Guru points His finger towards the truth, His disciples try to look at the truth. But His crazy fans remain fixed to the finger and say, 'How glorious is this finger! How glorious must be the truth this glorious finger is pointing towards! I will look at the truth one day but right now let me sing glories of this finger.”
― Shunya

“Most writers write from fandom, fantasy, or fiction. I write from experience, truth, and my heart.”
― Drue Grit

“. One of the very few positive memories I had of school was my tiny group of friends. We’d sit in the hall before class and exchange notebooks full of fanfiction and sketchbooks full of fanart. Like so many kids who thought they’d stay friends forever, we drifted apart after graduation. Those geeky days behind most of them, yet I was stuck in the same mindset.”
― Quiana Glide, Cosplay Worthy

“Like everyone else in fandom, Ada and I say I love you to each other like it's punctuation. But lately I've been finding it harder to say it to her because I've discovered that I mean it more seriously than I thought. Even just typing those three words requires an effort that feels deeply and nauseatingly physical, like reaching into my own ribcage and turning my lungs inside out.”
― Cynthia So, If You Still Recognise Me

“They come to laugh and to learn, to dance and to listen, to admire and to be admired, to teach and to be taught, to question their assumptions about Jane and to confirm them.”
― Ted Scheinman, Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan

“We find happiness in a kaleidoscope of stories: in books, in comics, in dance, in podcasts, in film and TV shows and video games. We find happiness in cosplaying as our favorite characters, and going to meet-and-greets with our favorite celebrities, and Dimension Door-ing onto the back of an Ancient Black Dragon, and finger-gunning Magic Missiles with our murder-hobo friends in a weekly session of Dungeons and Dragons. We all deserve to be happy, and love what we love, and be unironically enthusiastic about it. There is a magic in fandom that there rarely is anywhere else—where you can raise a TV show from the dead, and un-fridge a favorite character, and write fanfic that becomes canon. It is the kind of magic that brings our far corners of the world together.”
― Ashley Poston, The Princess and the Fangirl

“Wanted's lead was Wesley Gibson, drawn by J.G. Jones to resemble handsome rapper Eminem with an eye on the movie potential, but who stood for every shy, overweight, underweight, misunderstood kid reveling in the power to trash, denigrate, and insult his imagined enemies - who were just about everybody, especially the creators of the comic books, music, games, and movies that brought to these miserable lives the only meaning they would ever know. Geek royalty. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Wesley acted out the new porn-fueled fantasies of dumping the fat girlfriend, hooking up with the hot sex-mad assassin chicks, raping pretty newsreaders, and Getting Away with It All. At its best, reminiscent of the cool, amused cruelty of a Joe Orton play, the bludgeoning effect of Wanted's uneasy satire exposed the horrible truth: The fragile, asocial, and different really just wanted to do coke, fuck bimbos, and bully people. The revolution had arrived.”
― Grant Morrison, Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

“You can think about Robin Hood as a classic poacher, who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. And, essentially, what I see taking place in fandom is that process, where we steal the cultural resources that belong to the networks and we remake them, to speak to what we as fans want them to be, be they concerns as women, or racial concerns, sexual politics questions or whatever. That‘s what I think happens most of the time, when people are engaged in fan writing, in one way or another.”
― Henry Jenkins

“The music I was listening to on that particular day outside Small World triggered me and I got this insane influx of what I guess was dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and other neurochemicals that just made me feel so good. I think we call it fandom, and it’s a very addictive drug once you get it in the bloodstream.”
― Pete Trainor, Electrasy: Calling All The Dreamers

“We don’t understand, Fereshteh. Help us understand.’‘You ... can’t.’They can’t understand. Some things are impossible to explain.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“There's a lot of pious Roman Catholic iconography in the movie, although no one except the beloved executed priest ever goes into a church for purposes other than being murdered. The lads are loyal to the church in the same way fans are loyal to Da Bears. They aren't players themselves, but it's their team and don't mess with it.”
― Roger Ebert, A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length: More Movies That Suck

“As fans continue to gather both on- and offline, it’s important for us to remember what brings us together â€� 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