| 100% | SCRIBES | 7 | Early record-keepers, who wrote on clay or papyrus |
| 40% | EDITOR | 6 | Someone who revises written or recorded works |
| 38% | REED | 4 | Type of pen one used to write on papyrus or to make cuneiform tablets |
| 36% | DEFOE | 5 | Author who wrote on Friday? |
| 36% | ADDRESSER | 9 | One who writes on envelopes |
| 35% | SCRIBES | 7 | Educated Egyptians who wrote on scrolls |
| 35% | KEROUAC | 7 | Jack who wrote On The Road |
| 34% | EST | 3 | Is written on papyrus? |
| 33% | LUCRETIUS | 9 | Epicurean poet who wrote On the Nature of Things |
| 33% | SEUSS | 5 | "Doctor" who wrote "Hop on Pop" |
| 33% | MARCET | 6 | Jane, who wrote Conversations on Chemistry |
| 33% | SEUSS | 5 | "Dr." who wrote "Hop on Pop" |
| 33% | POET | 4 | Person who writes odes or sonnets |
| 32% | SOREL | 5 | French philosopher who wrote "Reflections on Violence" |
| 32% | ADAM | 4 | Rippon who wrote "Beautiful on the Outside" |
| 32% | RENE | 4 | Descartes who wrote “Meditations on First Philosophy” |
| 32% | LINERNOTE | 9 | Bit of writing on a record sleeve |
| 32% | ANNOTATOR | 9 | One who writes notes on a book |
| 32% | PAD | 3 | Something to write on or crash in |
| 31% | PICOULT | 7 | Author Jodi, who wrote My Sister's Keeper |
| 31% | ZOLA | 4 | Émile who wrote "Truth is on the march" |
| 31% | KEATS | 5 | John who wrote "Ode on a Grecian Urn" |
| 31% | CRITICS | 7 | People who write reviews of books or films |
| 31% | STYLUS | 6 | Tool for writing on a smartphone or tablet |
| 31% | TABLETS | 7 | Ancient Sumerians wrote on wet clay __ with a reed |
| 31% | ASTOR | 5 | Mary who wrote the autobiographical "A Life on Film" |
| 31% | ALGREN | 6 | Nelson who wrote "A Walk on the Wild Side" |
| 31% | ADAIR | 5 | Gilbert who wrote "Love and Death on Long Island" |
| 31% | KOVIC | 5 | Ron who wrote "Born on the Fourth of July" |
| 31% | TENNESSEE | 9 | Williams, who wrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |