Writing Quotes by 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…

— Nick McDonell

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…

— Nick McDonell

“Everyone knows what a penny dropped form the top of the Empire State Building can do. So if it started to rain pennies, millions…

— Nick McDonell

“Because really, when you get down on your knees on the pew, you’re just giving God a blow job.”

— Nick McDonell

I knew I loved writing, and I was raised by people who love books.

— Nick McDonell

I'm not good enough to write about my friends, who are all brilliant and sophisticated.

— Nick McDonell

“The world will spiral out from underneath you, and you will find nothing to hold on to because you are either too smart or…

— 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

“Fiindca toata lumea are o notiune exacta despre cum trebuie sa traiasca..”

— 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…

— Nick McDonell

I was brought up to believe you should always live the most interesting life you can.

— Nick McDonell

“White Mike was a thinker, his teachers said. This is what he was thinking as he watched his mother's coffin being lowered into the…

— Nick McDonell