| 100% | CAMUS | 5 | Who wrote "Can one be a saint if God does not exist?" |
| 46% | VOLTAIRE | 8 | He wrote "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him" |
| 41% | AGNOSTIC | 8 | One who does not believe nor disbelieve in a God |
| 41% | SCIENCE | 7 | "___ is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it": Einstein |
| 40% | ERMA | 4 | Bombeck who wrote If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? |
| 37% | BANKSY | 6 | Anonymous graffiti artist who wrote, “A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with” |
| 36% | DPLUSSTUDENT | 12 | One who is not on a roll? |
| 36% | LAOTSE | 6 | Who wrote "He who does not trust enough will not be trusted" |
| 35% | EARTHA | 6 | Kitt who wrote "A Tart Is Not a Sweet" |
| 35% | ERMA | 4 | Bombeck who wrote "Housework, if you do it right, will kill you" |
| 34% | SHAW | 4 | Playwright who wrote "Walk! Not bloody likely. I am going in a taxi" |
| 34% | ANAISNIN | 8 | Who wrote "We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are" |
| 34% | TSELIOT | 7 | Who wrote "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper" |
| 33% | TEAMPLAYER | 10 | One who can hardly be described as a narcissist |
| 33% | ROT | 3 | What could set in if a fruit is not picked when ripe |
| 33% | BILLIE | 6 | "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" singer who was nicknamed "Lady Day" |
| 33% | SEPARATED | 9 | A couple who do not stay together or are divorced |
| 33% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper" |
| 33% | WARSANSHIRE | 11 | Poet who wrote "no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark" |
| 33% | EDGARGUEST | 10 | American poet who wrote “Only a Dad” and “It Couldn’t Be Done” |
| 33% | TAP | 3 | Action that can be done to a phone, in more ways than one |
| 33% | STOWE | 5 | Best-selling author who wrote "I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation" |
| 33% | DRSEUSS | 7 | Who wrote "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not" |
| 32% | SUNNI | 5 | One who believes Muhammad did not designate a successor |
| 32% | ALLENGINSBERG | 13 | Poet who wrote “Everything is holy! everybody’s holy! everywhere is holy!” in a “Footnote” to one of his poems |
| 32% | LOUISEGLUCK | 11 | Literature Nobelist who wrote “The great thing / is not having / a mind. Feelings: / oh, I have those; they / govern me” |
| 32% | WARSANSHIRE | 11 | Somali-British poet who wrote, “no one leaves home unless / home is the mouth of a shark” |
| 31% | SONDHEIM | 8 | Composer who wrote, about crosswords, "A good clue can give you all the pleasures of being duped that a mystery story can" |
| 31% | FASSBINDER | 10 | Acclaimed German filmmaker who said, in 1974, “I think TV is the most important thing one can do” |
| 31% | SARTRE | 6 | Who wrote "Existentialism Is a Humanism," 1945 |