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. – Nick McDonell
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. – Nick McDonell
In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations. – Nick McDonell
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. – Nick McDonell
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. – Nick McDonell
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. – Nick McDonell
I know that I work hard for the things that I do, and I really go to the places that I report on. – Nick McDonell
I’m not good enough to write about my friends, who are all brilliant and sophisticated. – Nick McDonell
I was brought up to believe you should always live the most interesting life you can. – Nick McDonell
