Reaction to Dylan's win, from Billy Bragg to Stephen King

"Highway 61 Revisited" and "Bringing It All Back Home" were not only great records, but they were the first time I can remember being exposed to a truthful vision of the place I lived. —

An ill-conceived nostalgia award wrenched from the rancid prostates of senile, gibbering hippies — "Trainspotting" novelist Irvine Welsh.

The frontiers of literature keep widening, and it's exciting that the Nobel prize recognises that.

Asked about Nobel for Dylan: inspired & original choice. his haunting music & lyrics have always seemed, in the deepest sense, "literary" — Joyce Carol Oates on Twitter.

A poet of our time, and a sweet man every time our paths crossed — Bill Wyman, former member of The Rolling Stones in a statement — Bill Wyman, former member of The Rolling Stones in a statement.

[...] I can say I've been in a music video of a Nobel Prize winner.