Writing a Great Essay - It's Not Propaganda

You generally want to write about something that you don't know they answer to, he says. If the writing is exciting then there's a journey of discovery that characterizes it - like dostoyevsky did with his novels. He writes without too much self criticism and doesn't worry about how sentences are formulated. 'There is no bloody way in the world that you can come up with a sentence that that is high quality in content'