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

[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…

— Sjon

There's no reason - not yet, anyway - to believe [Bob] Dylan himself endorses such an attitude; or that he would think of himself…

— David Bennun

The [Nobel] prize is for literature.[Bob] Dylan is a songwriter. Here is where the argument starts to get interesting, because here is where it…

— David Bennun

I won't comment on what Bob Dylan said, but I will comment on his receiving the Nobel Prize, which to me is like pinning…

— Leonard Cohen

[ Bob Dylan] should let the Nobel Prize Committee know if he is accepting it or not. He will not be the first one…

— Sjon

[Bob] Dylan thus deserves the Nobel Prize, not just for "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," as the Nobel committee aptly…

— Jay Michaelson

The Yeas are relatively uniform. They view [Bob] Dylan as one of the greatest artists of his or any era, who deserves to be…

— David Bennun

[I have] my own view about [Bob] Dylan's Nobel prize. Which is, I'm firmly in the Nay camp. I do think the award is…

— David Bennun

I think Bob Dylan showed us that songs can rise to the level of literature, and he proved it over and over again. That's…

— Mary Gauthier

Just to put that in some context, 1954 was the same year that From Here to Eternity won an Oscar. Swanson's manufactured its first…

— Kevin Sessums

Bob Dylan, Nobel laureate. A new fact so shocking that even the year's most notable deaths have not outdone it for the volume (in…

— David Bennun

If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the Nobel Prize.

— Bob Dylan

I think we need to sort of broaden our definition of poetry, which maybe it's a good thing that they just gave this Nobel…

— Jim Jarmusch

Funny thing about Bob Dylan, the newest Nobel laureate in literature: He's been a master of self-invention for more than 50 years, creating personae,…

— Jay Michaelson

I have seen quite a few folk whom I know to be both fair minded and, as it happens,[Bob] Dylan fans, take up cudgels…

— David Bennun