Aging Quote 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Lorin Stein

I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.

— 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.…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— Lorin Stein