Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I'm more thrilled by the short fiction than I expected to be. I've found more pleasure in reading short fiction than I used to. By seeing what kinds of thinking are going on in short fiction. I was also surprised by the panic I've felt, especially at first, when we'd put an issue to bed and then realized we had to put another one together.

Lorin Stein's Popular Quotes

You can go back and try to generalize, but then you end up saying things that all editors say about everything that ever gets published. Something ab…

- Lorin Stein

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

- Lorin Stein

If I could change the attitude of young men toward literature, I would want them to read not just for escape, but because literature can be more trut…

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Our generation grew up with the Review as a fact of life. It was America’s literary magazine. To our minds, it still is. It has launched our favorite…

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It used to be that you would go into a writing program and what you would learn was how to write a short story. You would pick up the magazines and y…

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If you wrote about sex the way Jim [Salter] writes about sex in nonfiction, you would be a sociopath.

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The real threat to reading isn’t the time we spend hanging out, it’s the time we spend online.

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So, short stories have an even harder time, because they tend to get read during the day, between other things. They're interstitial. And yet the con…

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I don't know what people should be reading. Only you know what you should be reading.

- Lorin Stein