Goodreads asked Douglas M. Laurent:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Douglas M. Laurent I use writing as a type of "Zen" vehicle in that I leave my cloggy rationale behind and let the stream of intuition flow as she sees fit. Sometimes the stream rages, at other times she is languid, and rocks in the stream, such as editing factors, just offer more curious bends of mind and word to work around on my alphabeta journey. So, I enjoy the flavors of my mind- pen, even though they may at times befuddle and cause frustration. It is then I study my conundrums of consonants and my vowel howls appreciating all the flavors of mind and soul they generate, as if I were a patron in an art gallery observing a picture. Words are mirrors. Hence, quilling is a liberating meditative state, each word, sentence, paragraph is as a puzzle to solve, and to transmit instantaneously one's original thought immediately to the paper as in calligraphy allows for hightened awareness and perceptive clarity one would not ordinarily have performing mental chores that require bulk rationalistic thought with thickerer words. In fact, my whole economy of thought pertaining to the writ is celerity and swiftness of thought, economical sparesness and the condensing of thoughts into as few words as possible, much as a Japanese Zen garden functions where "less is more" and therefore the fewer forms are worked by the mind deeply to their greatest potential and not spread out and watered down with frivolities. Like a Samurai sword, the sharper the word, the sharper the mind and the less work required to cut. Fat words only make one slow and chaffing.

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