I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one. — Michael Helm Books Copy Share Image
We want to know that we're not alone with our loneliness or loss. — Michael Helm Knows Copy Share Image
I'm not even sure if empathy is an act, it could be a disposition. — Michael Helm Disposition Copy Share Image
The novel's not the best form for disposing ideas, though that's one thing it can do. It likely is the best form,… — Michael Helm Body Copy Share Image
We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded… — Michael Helm 21st century Copy Share Image
Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality. — Michael Helm Concepts Copy Share Image
I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding… — Michael Helm Another year Copy Share Image
We're getting used to reality and fantasy passing into each other. Much of the border between them has been erased. — Michael Helm Borders Copy Share Image
Paranoia can be a sign of a sanity in some circumstances, in some places and times. — Michael Helm Circumstances Copy Share Image
Trauma, and certain important experiences, can imprint on us at a genetic level. — Michael Helm Certain Copy Share Image
It's fiction's job to express how it feels to be living now, and it's a complex feeling, full of contradiction. To me… — Michael Helm Brutal Copy Share Image
I like a great degree of compression. I like to mix lateral steps with forward ones. I don't want the prose ever… — Michael Helm Compression Copy Share Image
Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity. — Michael Helm Books Copy Share Image
I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it. — Michael Helm Able Copy Share Image
There's some evidence that before events of mass trauma, even unpredictable ones, people begin to feel higher anxiety, often expressed in terms… — Michael Helm Anxiety Copy Share Image
Science is claiming ever more ground from popular stories of the kind we thought we weren't to believe in. — Michael Helm Believe Copy Share Image
The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry. — Michael Helm Courses Copy Share Image
