Brutal Quote by Michael Helm

I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.

— Michael Helm

“I have no talents but reading. I”

— Michael Helm

We want to know that we're not alone with our loneliness or loss.

— Michael Helm

I'm not even sure if empathy is an act, it could be a disposition.

— Michael Helm

The novel's not the best form for disposing ideas, though that's one thing it can do. It likely is the best form, though, for…

— Michael Helm

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 by falsehoods…

— Michael Helm

Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality.

— Michael Helm

I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding another year…

— Michael Helm

We're getting used to reality and fantasy passing into each other. Much of the border between them has been erased.

— Michael Helm

The real past can traumatize us, but so can the real future.

— Michael Helm

Paranoia can be a sign of a sanity in some circumstances, in some places and times.

— Michael Helm

Trauma, and certain important experiences, can imprint on us at a genetic level.

— Michael Helm