Fandom Engagement Quotes

I am not obsessed with social media fame, but I do think that it's a great tool by which I can stay in touch with my fans.

I've always wanted to do some kind of merchandising/clothing line/action figures because I know the fan base that I have are very loyal and dedicated, and they've always loved the action figures and other merchandise.

Being in a fandom is something you don't understand unless you're in one. I think it stems off of everyone wants more of something.

With fantasy and sci-fi, it's based in a real fandom. You're presenting to experts, and their source material is really important to them. They'll come up and ask: 'so when you turned your head slightly in that scene, what were you thinking?'

My goal with every show we put on Geek & Sundry is to make it that big of a success, not just within the video but within fandom itself.

'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who,' 'Forgotten Realms,' even 'Firefly' and 'The X-Files' have shared world novels and other media. I can't help but notice these settings have large shelf space in bookstores, so their publishers and authors are getting something right.

I remember seeing stories on Wattpad with five million reads and thinking, 'That must be incredible.'

I hadn't thought about that before, this passionate following, with fan fiction and artwork. At first it felt like an invasion of privacy, but then I realized it's nice that the character can be shared.

I wrote so much about fandom and participation for NPR that I eventually realized my most fertile way of participating in music is to actually play it, at least in a way that made the most sense to me.

I've been in fandom for a really long time. Back in the day, you had to go to a con to engage in fandom, and that was really the only way.

When Peter Jackson did The Lord of the Rings trilogy with Fellowship of the Ring, not everyone had read Tolkien, and yet somehow with that scope and the spectacle of that fantasy, people were willing to give it a shot. And when they watched the first one, the characters drew them in and they started understanding the story. And then, all of a sudden, they were The Lord of the Rings fans, even if they never read Tolkien.

Sci-fi fans are so interested in your character and so attached to the world that you've created.