In poetry, and in my study in graduate school, I was drawn…

I did my dissertation on the idea of femininity and women's writing, so I spent eight months reading about how women are portrayed in…

— Lauren Mayberry

I did my dissertation on Kafka.

— Jessie Ware

“How can poetry be something we study, but also something that makes us cry?”

— Rhian Williams

And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for…

— Norman MacCaig

I was nine when I first knew I wanted to be a writer, in particular, a poet.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe they need to speak to me in order…

— Tom Stoppard

I mean, '8 ½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

— Baz Luhrmann

I ran through most of college and ran through most of grad school. When I was writing my dissertation for my Ph.D., it was…

— Jane McGonigal

This is the last sentence of my dissertation: "What is soul in music if not powerfully embodied human presence?"

— Vijay Iyer

A monumental decision such as starting a family requires persuasive dissertations, licences, spreadsheets and field research. That's what I assumed until one night when…

— Ryan Knighton

“That was all he had ever aspired to, with a wife thrown into the bargain, maybe, and a kid or two to go along…

— Paul Auster

I didn't pass my degree due to never handing in an acceptable dissertation, and while it didn't harm me in the long run, my…

— Charlie Brooker

If you don't have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won't have the willpower to do a dissertation. #truth.

— Geoffrey Miller

Your tweet is as important as if you would have written a Ph.D. [dissertation] on the subject.

— Raoul Peck

“What's a dissertation?" "If Satan gave you instructions for writing the book report from Hell, it would closely resemble those of a Ph.D. dissertation.”

— Tiffany Reisz