| 100% | SUSANN | 6 | Best-selling novelist about whom Gore Vidal said "She doesn't write, she types!" |
| 36% | KEROUAC | 7 | About whom Capote said, ''That's not writing, it's typing'' |
| 31% | EMFORSTER | 9 | Edwardian novelist who said he was only able to write about “three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be” |
| 30% | MADEA | 5 | Film character about whom Tyler Perry said "I just don't want to be her age playing her" |
| 30% | SIRI | 4 | Novelist Hustvedt who often writes about neuroscience |
| 30% | GARBO | 5 | About whom Bette Davis said "Her instinct, her mastery over the machine, was pure witchcraft" |
| 29% | CAPOTE | 6 | Writer who said that Beat literature “isn’t writing at all—it’s typing” |
| 29% | ANNASEWELL | 10 | English novelist who published only one novel in her lifetime, "Black Beauty," which is one of the top ten best selling children's novels: 2 wds. |
| 29% | ROONEY | 6 | Sally who wrote “Beautiful World, Where Are You,” which features e-mails between an acclaimed novelist and her best friend (September, 2021) |
| 28% | CHELSEAHANDLER | 14 | TV comedian who wrote the best-selling 2025 memoir "I'll Have What She's Having": 2 wds. |
| 28% | SECRETCODE | 10 | Who wrote a 2003 best seller about a ___? |
| 28% | INDIAARIE | 9 | Songwriter who wrote "My mama said a lady ain't what she wears, but what she knows" |
| 28% | LFRANKBAUM | 10 | *Best-selling novelist who wrote the children's poetry volume "Father Goose" |
| 27% | CLEOPATRA | 9 | About whom Shakespeare wrote "Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale / Her infinite variety" |
| 27% | COLBERT | 7 | Stephen who said "Think books aren't scary? Well, think about this: You can't spell 'Book' without 'Boo!'" |
| 27% | PRIESTLEY | 9 | J.B. __; novelist who wrote The Good Companions |
| 26% | OHNICE | 6 | According to Oprah, if she says this about seven times in the same show, things aren't going well |
| 26% | LEFTY | 5 | One who doesn't write with their right |
| 26% | DIOR | 4 | Who said "A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting" |
| 25% | EVA | 3 | ___ Perón (former Argentina first lady who had a musical written about her) |
| 25% | ORAL | 4 | Type of exam that doesn't involve writing |
| 25% | STYLE | 5 | "___ is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn": Gore Vidal |
| 25% | HORNBY | 6 | English novelist Nick who wrote "About a Boy" |
| 25% | LONER | 5 | Person who doesn't mix well |
| 25% | SCOTTTUROW | 10 | Best-selling novelist whom Time called "Bard of the Litigious Age" |
| 25% | BALDACCI | 8 | Best-selling author David who writes the “King and Maxwell” novels |
| 25% | MIME | 4 | Performer who doesn't say a word |
| 25% | BADLOSER | 8 | Someone who doesn't take defeat well |
| 25% | REGAN | 5 | Character who said about her father, "Yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself" |
| 25% | PLATH | 5 | Poet and novelist of whom Elizabeth Hardwick wrote, “Her fate and her themes are hardly separate and both are singularly terrible” |