| 100% | SAGAN | 5 | Author of "Broca's Brain" |
| 73% | AREA | 4 | Broca's ___, segment of the brain linked to speech |
| 70% | ELDOCTOROW | 10 | US author of novels Andrew's Brain and Homer and Langley |
| 69% | SAGAN | 5 | "Broca's Brain" author |
| 62% | COULTER | 7 | Author of "If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans" |
| 59% | EBWHITE | 7 | Author of Charlotte's Web |
| 58% | JEFFERSON | 9 | Author of this puzzle's quote |
| 58% | DINESEN | 7 | Author of "Winter's Tales," 1942 |
| 58% | ASCH | 4 | Author of "Chaim Lederer's Return" |
| 58% | DHLAWRENCE | 10 | Author of "Lady Chatterley's Lover" |
| 58% | GOETHE | 6 | Author of "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship" |
| 58% | CAPOTE | 6 | Author of Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| 58% | ECO | 3 | Author of "Foucault's Pendulum," Umberto ___ |
| 58% | ATWOOD | 6 | Author of The Handmaid's Tale |
| 58% | GAY | 3 | Author of "The Beggar's Opera" |
| 58% | FRANZEN | 7 | Author of 2001's "The Corrections" |
| 56% | ATWOOD | 6 | Author of "The Handmaid's Tale" Margaret __ |
| 56% | NGAIOMARSH | 10 | Author of detective fiction's ''Golden Age'' |
| 56% | AUEL | 4 | Author of the "Earth's Children" series |
| 56% | COMEY | 5 | Author of 2018's "A Higher Loyalty" |
| 56% | ANITALOOS | 9 | Author of 1924's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
| 56% | CARROLL | 7 | Author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
| 56% | MATTHAIG | 8 | Author of 2020's The Midnight Library |
| 56% | AMYTAN | 6 | Author of "The Bonesetter's Daughter," 2001 |
| 56% | ANDREWLLOYDWEBBER | 17 | Author of Unmasked, the quote's source |
| 55% | OBAMA | 5 | Author of Amazon's top book of 2018 |
| 55% | BOBDOLE | 7 | Author of the memoir "One Soldier's Story" |
| 55% | ERICCARLE | 9 | Author of 1969's The Very Hungry Caterpillar |
| 55% | AUDREY | 6 | Author of The Time Traveler's Wife, Niffenegger |
| 55% | LENIN | 5 | Author of 1917's "The State and Revolution" |