Gregory Benford Quotes

Fan mail is one thing, but fans you meet in person are a different matter entirely.

I personally call one of my fans every month. I answer all of my own fan mail.

I get a lot of fan mail and stuff, and usually it's for me to sign stuff.

Personally, I don't go and seek contact with fans, but if they happen to find me somewhere I'll say hello and speak to them for a while.

I love talking with fans.

I also try to read all of my fan mail. A lot of them send me candy, which I'm not allowed to eat 'cause my mom says it might be poisonous.

I used to get, like, 2,000 letters a week at one point.

I do meet-and-greets at every show and meet a minimum of 20-35 fans at each.

Over the last couple of years I have gotten an average of 2,000 letters a week from fans.

If fans come up to me, I talk to them.

I get letters. I get several a week, I think. A lot of people want a picture, a lot of people just want an autograph.

Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.

I welcome every chance I get to interact with fans. I've made some very close friendships amongst fans, and I look forward to seeing them.

To be honest, I really enjoy the chance to meet the fans because I've found with 'The Hobbit,' the fans are all really lovely and enthusiastic.

If you were to come in to my house, I have archived every fan letter I've ever been given, boxes and boxes and boxes and boxes of them.

I'm a really big fan of meeting the fans. It's great to get feedback.

Yeah, so when 'Avatar' came out, the social media world and the idea of fan communities were very new. There were forums and you could obviously go to conventions and talk to people, but it wasn't as clear or easy.

I think it's very important that you have a good relationship with the fans. You can't lump everyone together as a fan - there are different types of fans - but I think it's important to speak to them and get to know them.

I don't know how to interact with fans, man.

In NASCAR, we pride ourselves on being accessible to fans.

I do have personal relationships with a lot of "fans," in quotations. I answer all my mail, I get emails from fans, and I try to answer them all. That's important to me, but occasionally there's the thing where people basically ask me to write book reports for them, and I don't have that kind of time. I feel like there's a certain sexism involved, like because I'm a woman I'm supposed to constantly be like giving to everybody.

I love connecting with the fan base and sharing my experiences.

I find the fans really interesting and nice, and I'll go over and say hello.

Mail is processed. It arrives at Paramount Studios! It's sorted, and a pile is brought to the production offices for each of the TV shows shot there. That mail is sorted so that each actor gets his letters. A pile is placed in his dressing room.

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.