18 quotes found
“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, fo...”
“You can't be like pop stars, but you can be part of their story. You can be their fan.”
“The coolest thing about fandom is the friendships made along the way with people who share your passions.”
“We have fangirl shorthand.”
“There's a time and place for everything, and I believe its called 'fan fiction'.”
“We would like to go and see the field that Milletshows us in his Springtime, we would like Claude Monet to take us to Giverny, on the banks of the Seine, to that bend of the river which he hardly l...”
“I think of us as a people who inoculate ourselves against a plague of insanity with a powerful anti-idiotic called science fiction. I think sf is a literature which by its very nature requires that...”
“So she's one of the grande dames of fandom? The Madame de Stal of the Starveil world?”
“And its great to have all these readers and fans who, for the most part, are very nice people, saying they love the books and the TV show. But there are so many of them and it just doesnt end. Oh, ...”
“If #SpartanSurvived failed in its efforts, no one would be the wiser. There was no risk to her online persona. No backlash from haters. Anonymitys cloak both protected her and kept the torch of Spa...”
“And even though people like to furrow their brow like they suspect you're not being honest about yourself, the truth is that they worry that you're not serving their idea of you.”
“I remember being a teenager and being ashamed of my musical tastes, at least some of them. My Brian Wilson and Beach Boys fandom, which is as important to me as anything else, was almost like a por...”
“A friend tells a story about taking his ten-year-old son to a Jets game. The game was being played during a driving rain on a freezing cold day, and the Jets lost by twenty points to a team they we...”
“Some people are born to fandom, others have fandom thrust upon them.”
“There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called 'fan fiction'.”
“So she's one of the grande dames of fandom? The Madame de Staël of the Starveil world?”
“And it’s great to have all these readers and fans who, for the most part, are very nice people, saying they love the books and the TV show. But there are so many of them and it just doesn’t end. Oh...”
