Nick McDonell
Nick McDonell
Robert Nicholas "Nick" McDonellis an American writer who has worked as a journalist, screenwriter, producer, novelist and researcher...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth18 February 1984
CountryUnited States of America
extremely hope
A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.
Someone once accused me of slumming. I don't know what that means. I play basketball. And through that, I get to see a world that is not smart-kid world.
brilliant deserving expense helping hope people starving terrified writers
I'm terrified of getting what I'm not deserving of, feeling that I've got something for nothing... at the expense of brilliant starving writers all over the world. But I have to hope these people who are helping me have integrity.
hard work
I know that I work hard for the things that I do, and I really go to the places that I report on.
knew love people raised
I knew I loved writing, and I was raised by people who love books.
bones landed leg played playing running time took winter
I played football; I was a running back, and I took a hit, and I had a hairline fracture in my leg which no one spotted, and I was playing basketball all winter and it got worse. And then I was long jumping, about 20 feet, and I landed one time and there was this big crack, and all the bones were jutting out of my leg.
good
I'm not good enough to write about my friends, who are all brilliant and sophisticated.
changing enormous inequity interested tiny vast
I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.
believe interesting should
I was brought up to believe you should always live the most interesting life you can.
stills reporters
I'm an inexperienced reporter, and I'm still learning.
exploring-the-world has-beens written
The more I have written, the less it has been about exploring myself, and the more it has been about exploring the world around me.
college relation wanted
In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.