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> [A lot of people who want to see the short story have a renaissance of readership - they tend to think of short stories, and sometimes poems too, as being well-suited to the way we now live, with all of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorin-stein/a-lot-of-people-who-want-to-see-the-short-story-have-a-renaissance-of/)

[Lorin Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorin-stein/)

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## More by Lorin Stein

> [I regret that there aren't more short stories in other magazines. But in a certain way, I think the disappearance of the short-story template…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorin-stein/i-regret-that-there-aren-t-more-short-stories-in-other-magazines-but/)

[Lorin Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorin-stein/)

> [You can go back and try to generalize, but then you end up saying things that all editors say about everything that ever gets…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorin-stein/you-can-go-back-and-try-to-generalize-but-then-you-end-up-saying/)

[Lorin Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorin-stein/)

> [I tend to think that the onus is on the writer to engage the reader, that the reader should not be expected to need…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorin-stein/i-tend-to-think-that-the-onus-is-on-the-writer-to-engage-the-reader/)

[Lorin Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorin-stein/)

> [For me the question that you have to ask, about any magazine, is whether it's needed, whether it's publishing things that no one else…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorin-stein/for-me-the-question-that-you-have-to-ask-about-any-magazine-is/)

[Lorin Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorin-stein/)

> [We've never had a giant circulation. And we've always been a magazine for writers and for sophisticated readers. We've never had to run stories…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorin-stein/we-ve-never-had-a-giant-circulation-and-we-ve-always-been-a-magazine/)

[Lorin Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorin-stein/)

> [I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorin-stein/i-m-a-reader-who-uses-fiction-as-a-way-of-worrying-about-life/)

[Lorin Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorin-stein/)

> [I love having people around who are better interviewers than I am and who can make the time to do a really great job.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorin-stein/i-love-having-people-around-who-are-better-interviewers-than-i-am-and/)

[Lorin Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorin-stein/)

> [Chekhov's stories are about the moment that a life goes off the rails and the price that will be paid - forever. That's a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorin-stein/chekhov-s-stories-are-about-the-moment-that-a-life-goes-off-the-rails/)

[Lorin Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorin-stein/)

> [I like fiction that deals with matters that are of burning importance to us in our private lives. And not all short stories are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorin-stein/i-like-fiction-that-deals-with-matters-that-are-of-burning-importance/)

[Lorin Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorin-stein/)

> [Names don't matter, CVs don't matter, previous publications don't matter at all, because, in a certain way, the ideal is for someone to come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorin-stein/names-don-t-matter-cvs-don-t-matter-previous-publications-don-t/)

[Lorin Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorin-stein/)

> [Pretty much every issue that we've put out, there have been at least one or two things that really surprised me. It sounds like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorin-stein/pretty-much-every-issue-that-we-ve-put-out-there-have-been-at-least/)

[Lorin Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorin-stein/)

> [I hadn't thought about the balance in mood. You see that we did it in alphabetical order, so if there's any kind of shape,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorin-stein/i-hadn-t-thought-about-the-balance-in-mood-you-see-that-we-did-it-in/)

[Lorin Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorin-stein/)

> [A lot of people who want to see the short story have a renaissance of readership - they tend to think of short stories,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorin-stein/a-lot-of-people-who-want-to-see-the-short-story-have-a-renaissance-of/)

[Lorin Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorin-stein/)

> [The real threat to reading isn’t the time we spend hanging out, it’s the time we spend online.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorin-stein/the-real-threat-to-reading-isn-t-the-time-we-spend-hanging-out-it-s/)

[Lorin Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorin-stein/)

> [When I was a book editor, I got used to being told that my tastes were dark or edgy. These are not words that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorin-stein/when-i-was-a-book-editor-i-got-used-to-being-told-that-my-tastes-were/)

[Lorin Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorin-stein/)

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