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It's 'The Hunger Games.' My character needs to look hungry. A little bit.

The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.

Rereading, we find a new book.

A book is a book is a book.

To hunger is to be alive and to hope.

A hungry man is an angry one.

The book may be garbage, but if it weighs in at a kilo or more, I stand before its author in awe.