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
college relation wanted
In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.
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.
extremely hope
A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.
good
I'm not good enough to write about my friends, who are all brilliant and sophisticated.
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.
knew love people raised
I knew I loved writing, and I was raised by people who love books.
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.
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.