| 100% | POE | 3 | He wrote of "the sweet Lenore" |
| 71% | STLUKE | 6 | He wrote of the prodigal son |
| 64% | CSLEWIS | 7 | He wrote The Chronicles of Narnia |
| 63% | LEROUX | 6 | He wrote The Phantom of the Opera |
| 62% | FERLINGHETTI | 12 | He wrote A Coney Island of the Mind |
| 61% | PLATO | 5 | He wrote "Knowledge is the food of the soul" |
| 61% | ROSSINI | 7 | He wrote the music for the Barber of Seville |
| 61% | THOREAU | 7 | He wrote "In wildness is the preservation of the world" |
| 60% | POE | 3 | Who wrote of "sorrow for the lost Lenore" |
| 59% | MAO | 3 | He wrote "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" |
| 59% | THORE | 5 | He wrote "It is life near the bone where it is sweetest" |
| 58% | TOLSTOY | 7 | He wrote the treatise on nonviolence The Kingdom of God Is Within You |
| 57% | ERASMUS | 7 | He wrote "In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king" |
| 57% | WILDE | 5 | He wrote "A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies" |
| 57% | MLK | 3 | He wrote about “a positive peace which is the presence of justice,” for short |
| 57% | BART | 4 | He writes on a chalkboard at the beginning of each episode of "The Simpsons" |
| 56% | KAFKA | 5 | He wrote "A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die" |
| 56% | SARTRE | 6 | He wrote "Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal" |
| 56% | YEATS | 5 | He wrote, "The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity" |
| 56% | FRANZKAFKA | 10 | He wrote "I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy" |
| 56% | DESADE | 6 | He wrote "The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment" |
| 55% | JOEEGG | 6 | Peter Nichols wrote A Day in the Death of him |
| 54% | AESOP | 5 | He wrote of sour grapes |
| 54% | AESOP | 5 | He wrote of ''sour grapes'' |
| 54% | POE | 3 | He wrote of Roderick Usher |
| 54% | AESOP | 5 | He wrote of talking animals |
| 53% | CARROLL | 7 | He wrote of a "vorpal blade" |
| 53% | DAHL | 4 | He wrote of a giant peach |
| 51% | PASCAL | 6 | He wrote "The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of" |
| 51% | ELIOT | 5 | He wrote of "a cat in profound meditation" |