| 100% | TONI | 4 | Morrison who said "A writer's life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity" |
| 35% | SOTOMAYOR | 9 | Supreme Court justice who once said "I am a New Yorker, and 7 a.m. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it" |
| 34% | GAB | 3 | It’s said to be a gift |
| 33% | APOEM | 5 | It's said to be not as lovely as a tree |
| 33% | STYLE | 5 | "___ is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn": Gore Vidal |
| 32% | WATSON | 6 | To whom it is said "You have a grand gift for silence …. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion" |
| 32% | LEAR | 4 | Who said "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" |
| 32% | CHARLOTTESWEB | 13 | Children's classic with the line "It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer" |
| 32% | LIZLEMON | 8 | Sitcom protagonist who says "I believe that all anyone really wants in this life is to sit in peace and eat a sandwich" |
| 32% | DRNO | 4 | Villain who says "That's a Dom Perignon '55. It would be a pity to break it" |
| 31% | LEAR | 4 | Shakespeare character who says "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child!" |
| 31% | LEAR | 4 | Stage character who says "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child!" |
| 31% | BOTH | 4 | "It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was ___," famous last line of "Charlotte's Web" |
| 31% | POOH | 4 | Lovable bear who says the line "Life is a journey to be experienced, not a problem to be solved" |
| 31% | LEAR | 4 | King who said "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" |
| 31% | WILDE | 5 | Writer who said "Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood" |
| 31% | EEYORE | 6 | Kid-lit character who says, "It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it" |
| 31% | DRSEUSS | 7 | Who wrote "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not" |
| 31% | ASIMOV | 6 | Writer who said "I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander" |
| 30% | EEYORE | 6 | Illustrated character who said, “We can’t all, and some of us don’t. That’s all there is to it” |
| 30% | CHARLOTTESWEB | 13 | Children's classic by 50-Across with the line, "It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer" (2 wds.) |
| 30% | THECIDERHOUSELURES | 18 | Story of a youth who says to hell with it and goes to the pub? |
| 30% | ROSSINI | 7 | Composer who said "Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music" |
| 30% | TACT | 4 | It's said to be "the art of recognizing when to be big and when not to belittle" |
| 30% | CHAPLIN | 7 | Who said "All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl" |
| 30% | ARESO | 5 | Potential reply to "I am not a crook," if you assume Nixon said it on a playground |
| 29% | PROSPERO | 8 | Character who says "We are such stuff
as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep" |
| 29% | KEN | 3 | Character in a hit 2023 film who sings "Is it my destiny to live and die a life of blonde fragility?" |
| 29% | ARUNDHATI | 9 | Novelist Roy who said, “Our strategy should not only be to confront empire but to lay siege to it” |
| 29% | YOUREMISSINGOUT | 15 | "That's a lost opportunity," and what can be said to the writer of four clues in this puzzle |