Donald Antrim’s First Time

[@complexlittlepirate3589]

Profound. I"ll come back to this again and again. Heartfelt thanks to Donald, the Paris Review team and the funders!

[@TonyaODellFamishedWriter]

Growing pains are not just physical. This was a great one.

[@havefunbesafe]

The creative process sometimes feel like a large balloon smothering us with its size but at the same time it’s displacing space and guiding us to what we were meant to do. Thank you Donald.

[@erikk.7477]

Wow, he's so honest about what he does, and so humble. Thats's unusual I guess.

[@sattarabus]

I salute your candour . I have been there before. Pursuit of excellence is as much creative as contraceptive. There are reams of text you consign to the dust bin because your critical radar detects heaps of chaff with no grains. There are days so crepuscular you virtually decide to discard whatever stationery is stacked up in the drawers and on the table. But the clouds disperse and you are back in the study. Time to restart and renew. Write and rewrite. The pencil shall outlast the eraser. Shades of Nabokov. More power to your pen, Donald.

[@RichGriffiths99]

Wow. Thank you for this. Thank you.

[@_aworldthatspoke950]

I really want this all gone by the end of the day