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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?

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[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.
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I do quite extensive research for most of my novels.
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[Bob Dylan] is a worthy laureate for the Nobel Prize.
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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.
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Politics enter dangerous ground, when people proclaim there are simple answers for our complex world.
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I have seen the universe! It is made of poems!
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Now 10 percent of this population [in Iceland] of 330,000 people were born elsewhere - Polish, North Africans, Europeans, Americans - people are coming from all over. It is still changing society in a good way.
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One thing for sure is it will be written in the Icelandic language. All of my literary work is.
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I'm not one of those writers who writes everyday.
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Much of my time is taken up by reading, researching and trying out ideas.
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I will just take the chance that the language will still be relevant in 100 years, which is something we cannot take for granted with a language that is spoken by 330,000 people.
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