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…

- Lorin Stein

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…

- Lorin Stein

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…

- Lorin Stein

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

- Lorin Stein

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

- Lorin Stein

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…

- Lorin Stein

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

- Lorin Stein