| 100% | POE | 3 | Who wrote "I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him" |
| 33% | LEAR | 4 | He wrote "There was an old man of Thermopylae / Who never did anything properly ..." |
| 31% | PLATH | 5 | Poet who wrote "I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am" |
| 30% | AYNRAND | 7 | Who wrote "Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think" |
| 29% | EDA | 3 | LeShan who wrote "It's Better to Be Over the Hill Than Under It" |
| 29% | LESHAN | 6 | Eda who wrote "It's Better to Be Over the Hill Than Under It" |
| 29% | MRDARCY | 7 | To whom it is said, “I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry” |
| 27% | EMFORSTER | 9 | Edwardian novelist who said he was only able to write about “three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be” |
| 27% | DAVID | 5 | Director Lynch about whom Kyle MacLachlan wrote, "I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear" |
| 27% | NOD | 3 | Land of —, region in the Old Testament to which Cain was banished after he had killed Abel |
| 26% | HUGHGRANT | 9 | "Paddington 2" actor who says, "I'm too old and ugly to be the young leading man in romantic comedies now, thank God": 2 wds. |
| 26% | KAFKA | 5 | Franz who wrote "I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us" |
| 26% | DYE | 3 | Comedian Jeff ___, who was the "sidekick" to Shatner, Bradshaw, Foreman and Winkler in "Better Late Than Never " |
| 25% | HEIDI | 5 | Schreck who wrote "What the Constitution Means to Me" |
| 25% | YEATS | 5 | Poet who wrote "That is no country for old men" |
| 25% | AMES | 4 | Harry of the novel "The Man Who Cried I Am" |
| 25% | SHANE | 5 | Classic western hero who says "A man has to be what he is, Joey. Can't break the mold" |
| 25% | PATCHADAMS | 10 | Doctor who said of Robin Williams, "he was the only actor I wanted to play me, and I think he did a fabulous job." |
| 25% | LYRIC | 5 | "In the town where I was born / Lived a man who sailed to sea" is the first one in "Yellow Submarine," by the Beatles |
| 25% | COLINKAEPERNICK | 15 | He said, “To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way” |
| 25% | PAINE | 5 | Tom who wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls" |
| 25% | STORY | 5 | The Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest known to man |
| 25% | ANAISNIN | 8 | Who wrote "The only abnormality is the incapacity to love" |
| 24% | DANTE | 5 | Poet who wrote "In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost" |
| 24% | AYN | 3 | Rand who wrote "Civilization is the process of setting man free from men" |
| 24% | NORMANBATES | 11 | To whom the title "45-Down" was referring the whole time |
| 24% | HEGEL | 5 | German philosopher who wrote "The true is the whole" |
| 24% | HEMINGWAY | 9 | American who wrote The Old Man and the Sea |
| 24% | VOLTAIRE | 8 | Philosopher who wrote "It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere" |
| 24% | CHELSEAHANDLER | 14 | Comedian who wrote the memoir “Life Will Be the Death of Me” |