Early Quote by Ella Woodward

I'm not writing a Ph.D. Dissertation.

— Bill O'Reilly

I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another…

— Abraham Pais

Yo! You’re my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I’d have asked for it, Motherfucker!

— Mark Leyner

I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.

— Joe Theismann

As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.

— Marc Almond

It would be suicide in the American academy to show too early an interest beyond your doctoral specialization: charges of everything from charlatanry to…

— Tony Judt

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

— Peter Straub

My PhD was not fast out of the gate.

— Donna Strickland

I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why…

— Ken Thompson

I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.

— Daniel J. Bernstein

My work comes first, reasons for it follow.

— Andy Goldsworthy

If it's coming near the end of a chapter and I'm really getting into it, I tend to get up earlier and earlier, just…

— Robert Caro