| 100% | OVID | 4 | He wrote "Venus favors the bold" |
| 62% | OVID | 4 | "Venus favors the bold" writer |
| 54% | FOR | 3 | ___tune favors the bold |
| 53% | FORTUNE | 7 | It favors the bold |
| 51% | ADAGE | 5 | “Fortune favors the bold,” for one |
| 51% | PAYER | 5 | He wrote the check |
| 50% | TWAIN | 5 | He wrote about the Finns |
| 49% | STLUKE | 6 | He wrote of the prodigal son |
| 49% | CSLEWIS | 7 | He wrote The Chronicles of Narnia |
| 49% | STEVEKATZ | 9 | He wrote the book Creamy & Delicious |
| 48% | LEROUX | 6 | He wrote The Phantom of the Opera |
| 47% | REED | 4 | He wrote "Ten Days That Shook the World" |
| 47% | HORACE | 6 | He wrote "Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods" |
| 47% | REISER | 6 | He wrote the best sellers "Couplehood" and "Babyhood" |
| 47% | BECKETT | 7 | He wrote the play "Waiting for Godot": Samuel __ |
| 47% | HALDAVID | 8 | He wrote the lyrics for musical Promises, Promises |
| 47% | ANKA | 4 | He wrote the English lyrics to "My Way" |
| 47% | FERLINGHETTI | 12 | He wrote A Coney Island of the Mind |
| 47% | ARES | 4 | He favored the Trojans |
| 47% | ROSSINI | 7 | He wrote the music for the Barber of Seville |
| 47% | AGNEW | 5 | He wrote the 1980 memoir “Go Quietly . . . or Else” |
| 46% | ROALDDAHL | 9 | He wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
| 46% | THOREAU | 7 | He wrote "In wildness is the preservation of the world" |
| 46% | MANILOW | 7 | He writes the songs that make the whole world sing |
| 45% | AAMILNE | 7 | He wrote "You and I have brains. The others have fluff" |
| 45% | DRYDEN | 6 | He wrote "None but the brave deserves the fair" |
| 45% | PLATO | 5 | He wrote "Knowledge is the food of the soul" |
| 44% | MAO | 3 | He wrote "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" |
| 44% | THORE | 5 | He wrote "It is life near the bone where it is sweetest" |
| 44% | JOHNSTEINBECK | 13 | He wrote "In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable" |