All authors secretly hope that their works will be read in 100 years' time and 200 years, and that they will somehow survive into the future.

I have seen the universe! It is made of poems!

[Bob Dylan] is a worthy laureate for the Nobel Prize.

I'm not one of those writers who writes everyday.

[Bob Dylan] builds his lyrics, of course, from personal experience, but it's also a literary work. He draws heavily on his knowledge of American lyric tradition as well as European modernism. But he should let the Nobel Prize Committee know if he is accepting it or not.

I have to face questions like, "Do I simply write the best text I possibly can? Do I specifically engage with contemporary issues? 'Do I consciously try to write something that is timeless?"

Literature acknowledges that life is complicated.