Writers
Writers, poets: writer| poet| cartoonist| translator
Artists: composer| singer| director| painter| sculptor| architect| photographer
Scientists: philosopher| physicist| biologist| chemist| doctor| psychologist| historian| mathematician| linguist
Public figures: actor| politician| comedian
Artists: composer| singer| director| painter| sculptor| architect| photographer
Scientists: philosopher| physicist| biologist| chemist| doctor| psychologist| historian| mathematician| linguist
Public figures: actor| politician| comedian
| Author (number of quotes) | Description |
| A | |
| Abbey, Edward (3) | American author |
| Adams, Douglas (26) | English author |
| Adams, Henry Brooks (7) | American author, journalist, historian |
| Adams, Scott (15) | American comic strip writer |
| Addison, Joseph (6) | English author |
| Ahern, Cecelia (1) | Irish-born author |
| Alberti, Leon Battista (1) | Italian architect, linguist, author and philosopher |
| Albom, Mitch (16) | American author, journalist and screenwriter |
| Alcott, Louisa May (6) | American author |
| Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1) | American author and poet |
| Allen, Woody (27) | American author, actor, director and producer |
| Allende, Isabel (2) | Chilean American writer |
| Andersen, Hans Christian (1) | Danish author |
| Anderson, C. J. (2) | American author |
| Anderson, Walter (1) | American author, painter |
| Angelou, Maya (13) | American author and poet |
| Anthony, Piers (1) | English-American author |
| Apollinaire, Guillaume (1) | French author, poet, criticist |
| Arden, Paul (21) | American creative director and author |
| Argov, Sherry (2) | American author |
| Armstrong, Kelley (1) | Canadian writer |
| Asimov, Isaac (37) | Russian-born American author and biochemist |
| Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia (1) | American author |
| Auden, Wystan Hugh (1) | English author |
| Auerbach, Berthold (1) | German-Jewish poet, author |
| Austen, Jane (15) | English author |
| Auster, Paul (2) | American author |
| Azalea, Iggy (1) | stage name of Amethyst Amelia Kelly, Australian rapper, songwriter and model |
| B | |
| Babcock, Maltbie Davenport (1) | American clergyman and writer |
| Babits, Mihály (1) | Hungarian poet, author and translator |
| Bach, Richard (19) | American author |
| Bagehot, Walter (2) | English businessman, author and journalist |
| Bagnold, Enid (1) | British author |
| Baker, Russell (1) | American writer |
| Baldwin, Faith (1) | American author |
| Balzac, Honoré de (2) | French author |
| Bangs, Richard (1) | American author and television personality |
| Barker, Dan (2) | American activist, author and musician |
| Barreau, Nicolas (2) | French author |
| Barrie, J. M. (2) | Scottish author and dramatist |
| Barry, Dave (11) | American author |
| Bates, Daisy (1) | American civil rights activist, publisher and writer |
| Beagle, Peter S. (1) | American author |
| Beatty, Paul (1) | American author |
| Beauvoir, Simone de (2) | French author and philosopher |
| Belfort, Jordan (1) | American author, entrepreneur, and motivational speaker |
| Bell, Rob (1) | American author and pastor |
| Bennett, Alan (2) | British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author |
| Bennett, Bo (2) | pen name of Robert Bennett, American businessman and author |
| Benson, Edward Frederic (1) | English novelist, biographer and short story writer |
| Berkus, Rusty (1) | American author |
| Beston, Henry (1) | American author and scientist |
| Betjeman, John (1) | English author and poet |
| Black, Holly (2) | American writer and editor |
| Bloomfield, Harold (1) | American psychiatrist and author |
| Bon Jovi, Jon (2) | American musician, singer, songwriter, and actor |
| Bono (2) | Irish singer-songwriter, musician, and businessman |
| Boom, Corrie ten (1) | Dutch Christian author |
| Boone, Pat (1) | pen name of Charles Eugene Boone, American singer, actor and author |
| Boorstin, Daniel J. (2) | American historian, lawyer and author |
| Borland, Hal (3) | American author |
| Bovee, Christian Nestell (3) | American author |
| Bowen, Elizabeth (1) | English-Irish-born author |
| Börne, Ludwig (1) | German author |
| Bracken, Peg (1) | American author |
| Bradbury, Ray (4) | American fantasy, horror and science fiction author |
| Brashares, Ann (1) | American author |
| Bray, Libba (5) | American author |
| Breathnach, Sarah Ban (2) | American author |
| Brogan, Denis William (1) | English author and historian |
| Bronson, Po (1) | American author and journalist |
| Bronte, Charlotte (6) | English author |
| Brooks, Michael (1) | English author |
| Brown, Dan (5) | American author |
| Brown, Derren (1) | English magician and author |
| Brown, H. Jackson (10) | American author |
| Brown, Les (3) | American author |
| Brown, Pam (1) | Australian author |
| Brown, Rita Mae (3) | American writer |
| Browne, Thomas (2) | English author |
| Bryson, Bill (1) | American author |
| Bujold, Lois McMaster (1) | American author |
| Bukowski, Charles (17) | American author |
| Bulwer-Lytton, Edward (2) | English author, poet, politician |
| Bunyan, John (1) | English-born author and clergyman |
| Burgess, Anthony (2) | English author, poet, composer, and translator |
| Burns, George (5) | Amerikai author, comedian |
| Butcher, Jim (2) | American author |
| Butler, Samuel (7) | English author |
| C | |
| Cabell, James Branch (1) | American author |
| Cabello, Camila (2) | Cuban-American singer and songwriter |
| Cabot, Meg (8) | American author |
| Cain, David (2) | American author |
| Calvino, Italo (1) | Italian author |
| Campbell, Bebe Moore (1) | American author |
| Campbell, Joseph (6) | American author and scientist |
| Camus, Albert (18) | French author, philosopher |
| Canfield, Jack (3) | American author and motivational speaker |
| Card, Orson Scott (9) | American author |
| Carlin, George (7) | Comedian, actor, author |
| Carlyle, Thomas (6) | Scottish-born author and historian |
| Carnegie, Dale (6) | American author |
| Carroll, Lewis (6) | pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, English author and poet |
| Carter-Scott, Cherie (3) | American author |
| Cass, Kiera (2) | American author |
| Cather, Willa (3) | American author |
| Chamfort, Nicolas (6) | French author |
| Chapin, Edwin Hubbell (2) | American priest, author |
| Chbosky, Stephen (3) | American author, screenwriter and director |
| Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (2) | English author |
| Christie, Agatha (18) | English author |
| Christina, Greta (17) | American author and activist |
| Churchill, Winston (20) | English politician, author |
| Clancy, Tom (1) | American author |
| Clare, Cassandra (18) | pen name of Judith Rumelt, American-born author |
| Clarke, Arthur Charles (7) | English author |
| Clarke, James Freeman (1) | American theologian and author |
| Cleaver, Eldridge (1) | American writer and political activist |
| Cleese, John Marwood (1) | English comedian, author and producer |
| Clegg, Brian (1) | English author |
| Clooney, George (1) | American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter |
| Cocteau, Jean (4) | French poet, author, painter, actor, composer and director |
| Colbert, Stephen (1) | American comedian and author |
| Colby, Frank Moore (1) | American author, historian |
| Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle (1) | French author |
| Colfer, Eoin (1) | Irish author |
| Collins, Suzanne (11) | American author |
| Colton, Charles Caleb (6) | English clergyman, author |
| Conklin, Robert (2) | American author |
| Connolly, Cyril Vernon (1) | English literary critic and writer |
| Conrad, Joseph (2) | Polish-born English author |
| Corcoran, Barbara (1) | American businesswoman, investor, speaker, author, and TV personality |
| Cosgrove, Stephen (1) | American author |
| Cousins, Norman (2) | American political journalist, author and professor |
| Cousteau, Jacques-Yves (1) | French naval officer, filmmaker, scientist and author |
| Covey, Stephen R. (4) | American author |
| Crescenzo, Luciano De (1) | Italian author, actor and director |
| Crowley, Aleister (2) | English-born occultist, author |
| Cummings, Edward Estlin (2) | American author, poet, painter |
| Curtis, Jamie Lee (1) | American actress and author |
| Cussler, Clive (1) | American author |
| D | |
| Dahl, Roald (1) | Norwegian-born English author |
| Dahlberg, Edward (4) | American author |
| Dalberg-Acton, John (2) | English historian, politician, and writer |
| Davidson, Craig (1) | Canadian author of short stories and novels |
| Davis, Wade (2) | Colombian-Canadian anthropologist, ethnobotanist, and author |
| Dawkins, Richard (25) | British evolutionary biologist and author |
| Deffand, Madame Marie du (2) | French author |
| Dessen, Sarah (11) | American author |
| Devlin, Keith (4) | British writer, mathematician |
| Diamond, Jared (3) | American scientist and author |
| Dickens, Charles (15) | English author |
| Diesel, Vin (1) | American actor, producer and screenwriter |
| Dikkers, Scott (2) | American author and businessman |
| Dillard, Annie (1) | American author |
| Disney, Walt (2) | American filmdirector and screenwriter |
| Disraeli, Benjamin (10) | English author and politician |
| Doren, Mark Van (1) | American writer, poet |
| Dosztojevszkij, Fjodor Mihajlovics (3) | Russian author |
| Douglas, Norman (1) | English author |
| Downs, Hugh (1) | American author, producer and TV personality |
| Doyle, Arthur Conan (18) | Scottish-born author |
| Drucker, Peter Ferdinand (1) | author |
| Dryden, John (4) | English author, poet |
| Duane, Diane (1) | American science fiction and fantasy author |
| Dumas, Alexandre (10) | French author |
| Dunne, Finley Peter (1) | American author and comedian |
| Durant, Will (1) | American author, historian, philosopher |
| Durrell, Gerald (4) | English zoologist and author |
| Dyer, Wayne (2) | American author |
| Dyer, Wayne W. (1) | American author |
| E | |
| Eastman, Max (2) | American author, activist |
| Ebert, Roger (2) | American film critic, historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author |
| Eco, Umberto (7) | Italian author |
| Eddings, David (5) | American fantasy writer |
| Eggers, Dave (1) | American author |
| Eliot, George (7) | English author |
| Elkeles, Simone (3) | American author |
| Elliott, Clark (1) | American researcher, teacher and author |
| Elliott, Stephen (1) | American author |
| Ellis, Henry Havelock (3) | English psychologist and author |
| Ellison, Harlan (1) | American writer |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo (42) | American author, poet |
| Ephron, Nora (3) | American director, producer, author |
| Epps, Omar (2) | American actor, rapper, songwriter and record producer |
| Epstein, Robert (1) | American psychologist, author and journalist |
| Ertz, Susan (1) | English author |
| Evanovich, Janet (1) | American author |
| Evans, Richard Paul (1) | American author |
| F | |
| Fadiman, Clifton (1) | American author, radio and television personality |
| Feather, William (1) | American author |
| Fischer, Ernst (1) | Bohemian-born Austrian journalist, writer and politician |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott (2) | American author |
| Fitzpatrick, Becca (2) | American author |
| Flagg, Fannie (1) | stage name of Patricia Neal, American author and actress |
| Fontaine, Jean de La (1) | French author and poet |
| Fowles, John (1) | English author |
| France, Anatole (6) | French author, poet |
| Franklin, Benjamin (27) | American author, politician, philosopher, scientist |
| Friedman, Thomas L. (1) | American journalist and author |
| Fritz, Robert (1) | American author, composer and movie maker |
| Frost, David (2) | English television host, media personality, journalist, comedian, and writer |
| Fry, Stephen (2) | English comedian, author and actor |
| Fuller, Richard Buckminster (2) | American architect, poet, author, inventor |
| G | |
| Gaiman, Neil (39) | English author and poet |
| Gardner, John William (1) | American politician and author |
| Gibb, Jack (1) | American psychologist and author |
| Gibran, Khalil (1) | Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer |
| Gide, André (2) | French author |
| Giffin, Emily (4) | American author |
| Gilbert, Elizabeth (19) | American author |
| Gitomer, Jeffrey (1) | American author and motivational speaker |
| Gladwell, Malcolm (4) | English-born Canadian journalist, author, and speaker |
| Godwin, Gail (1) | American author |
| Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (15) | German author and poet |
| Golden, Arthur (3) | American author |
| Golding, William (3) | English author and poet |
| Goldman, William (3) | American author |
| Goodkind, Terry (2) | American author |
| Goulding, Ellie (1) | English singer and songwriter |
| Gray, Claudia (9) | pen name of Amy Vincent, American author |
| Green, John (12) | American author |
| Green, Ruth Hurmence (1) | American author |
| Greene, Graham (1) | English author |
| Greenwald, Glenn (3) | American lawyer, journalist and author |
| Gribbin, John (2) | English physicist and author |
| Groom, Winston (2) | American novelist and non-fiction writer |
| Gruen, Sara (1) | Canadian-born American author |
| Guetta, David (1) | French DJ, producer and songwriter |
| H | |
| Halsey, Margaret (1) | American author |
| Hannah, Kristin (2) | American author |
| Hansberry, Lorraine (1) | American author |
| Hanson, Joe (1) | American writer and comedian |
| Harris, Annaka (3) | american author |
| Harris, Calvin (1) | Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter |
| Harris, Charlaine (23) | American author |
| Harris, Joanne (8) | English author |
| Harris, Sam (36) | American author, philosopher |
| Harrison, George (1) | English musician, singer and songwriter, the lead guitarist of the Beatles |
| Hart, Hannah (1) | American comedian, actress and author |
| Harte, Bret (1) | American author and poet |
| Hawkins, Karen (4) | American author |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel (3) | American author |
| Hay, Louise L. (2) | American author |
| Heffernan, Margaret (1) | American businesswoman and writer |
| Heine, Heinrich (2) | German poet, author, journalist |
| Heinlein, Robert Anson (5) | American science fiction writer |
| Hemingway, Ernest (10) | American author, journalist |
| Henry, O. (1) | pen name of the American writer William Sydney Porter |
| Herbert, Frank (2) | American sci-fi author |
| Herold, Don (1) | American comedian, author, illustrator, and cartoonist |
| Hill, Napoleon (1) | American author |
| Hillis, Danny (1) | American scientist, engineer, entrepreneur, and author |
| Hitchcock, Alfred (1) | English director, producer, screenwriter |
| Hitchens, Christopher (5) | British American author and journalist |
| Hocking, Amanda (1) | American writer |
| Hodgell, P. C. (1) | American fantasy writer, artist, professor |
| Hoffman, Alice (1) | American author |
| Holland, Josiah Gilbert (1) | American author and poet |
| Holliwell, Raymond (1) | American author |
| Hornby, Nick (4) | English author |
| Horowitz, Anthony (1) | English author |
| Hosseini, Khaled (8) | Afghan-born American author and doctor |
| Howe, Edgar Watson (1) | American author |
| Hubbard, Elbert (18) | American author and philosopher |
| Hugo, Victor (17) | French poet, writer |
| Hull, Raymond (1) | Canadian screenwriter |
| I | |
| Ibsen, Henrik (1) | Norwegian author |
| Iles, George (1) | American author |
| Irving, Washington (2) | American author and historian |
| Ivins, Molly (1) | pen name of Mary Tyler Ivins, American newspaper columnist, author, political commentator, and humorist |
| J | |
| J. Gaines, Ernest (1) | African-American author |
| James, E. L. (1) | pen name of Erika Mitchell, English author |
| James, Henry (2) | American-born English author |
| Jay, Francine (5) | American writer, minimalist |
| Jenkins, A. M. (5) | American author |
| Jerome, Jerome K. (1) | English writer and humorist |
| Jett, Joan (1) | American rock singer, songwriter, composer and actress |
| Johnson, Barbara (2) | English-American author |
| Johnson, Samuel (10) | English author and poet |
| Jókai, Mór (4) | Hungarian author |
| Jones, Franklin Pierce (2) | American author, comedian |
| Jones, Laurie Beth (1) | American author and motivational trainer |
| Jones, Lloyd (1) | New Zealand author |
| Jones, Tommy Lee (1) | American actor, director, producer and screenwriter |
| Jong, Erica (3) | American author and teacher |
| Joyce, James (2) | Irish-born poet, author, criticist |
| K | |
| Kafka, Franz (2) | German author |
| Kanin, Garson (1) | American author and director |
| Kate, Lauren (1) | American author |
| Kaufman, Josh (1) | american business expert, author |
| Kaulitz, Bill (1) | German singer, songwriter, fashion designer and model |
| Kaur, Rupi (4) | Indian-born Canadian poet, author, and illustrator |
| Keen, Sam (1) | American author, professor and philosopher |
| Keller, Helen (10) | American deafblind author, political activist, and lecturer |
| Kenison, Katrina (4) | American writer |
| Kenyon, Sherrilyn (1) | American writer |
| Kidd, Sue Monk (3) | American writer |
| King, Stephen (108) | American author |
| Kingsley, Charles (1) | English author and historian |
| Kingsolver, Barbara (2) | American author |
| Kipling, Joseph Rudyard (3) | English author and poet |
| Klein, Stephanie (1) | American blogger and author |
| Kleypas, Lisa (3) | American author |
| Knox, Jen (1) | American writer |
| Koestler, Arthur (4) | Hungarian author and journalist |
| Kosztolányi, Dezső (3) | Hungarian author, poet, translator, journalist |
| Kuban, Karla (1) | American author |
| Kundera, Milan (3) | Czech-French author, playwright and poet |
| Kurzweil, Ray (6) | American inventor and author |
| Kusturica, Emir (2) | Serbian director, screenwriter, actor, producer, and musician |
| L | |
| Lady Gaga (3) | stage name of Stefani Germanotta, American singer and songwriter |
| Lamartine, Alphonse de (2) | French author and poet |
| Lamb, Wally (1) | American author |
| Lambert, Adam (2) | American singer, songwriter, and actor |
| Larsson, Stieg (1) | Swedish author |
| Lawrence, Cooper (1) | American radio veteran and author |
| Lawrence, D. H. (8) | full name David Herbert Richards Lawrence, English author, poet, literary critic and painter |
| Leavitt, Robert Keith (1) | American author |
| Lebowitz, Fran (2) | American author |
| Lederer, Richard (1) | American author, speaker, and teacher |
| Lee, Harper (7) | American author |
| Lee, Stan (1) | pen name of Stanley Martin Lieber, American comic book writer |
| Lennon, John (10) | English musician and singer-songwriter, one of the founding members of The Beatles |
| Letterman, Elmer G. (2) | American businessman and author |
| Levant, Oscar (4) | American musician, actor, author |
| Levine, Stephen (1) | American poet, author |
| Lewis, Sinclair (1) | American author |
| Lindner, Robert M. (1) | American author and psychologist |
| Lindqvist, John Ajvide (6) | Swedish author |
| Livingstone, Ian (1) | English author and entrepreneur |
| London, Jack (3) | American author |
| Long, Haniel Clark (1) | American poet and author |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (6) | American author and poet |
| Lowry, Lois (1) | American author |
| Lucado, Max (2) | American author and preacher |
| M | |
| M. Barrie, James (1) | Scottish author and dramatist |
| Macaulay, Thomas Babington (2) | English politician and author |
| MacDonald, George (1) | Scottish author and poet |
| Machiavelli, Niccolo (1) | Italian author and politician |
| MacKinnon, Rebecca (1) | American author |
| Madách, Imre (8) | Hungarian author |
| Maguire, Gregory (2) | American author |
| Mailer, Norman (2) | American author |
| Maltz, Maxwell (1) | American cosmetic surgeon and author |
| Mann, Thomas (1) | German author |
| Mannes, Marya (1) | pen name of Maria von Heimburg Mannes, American author and criticist |
| Maraboli, Steve (74) | American motivational speaker and author |
| Márai, Sándor (10) | Hungarian author |
| Marchetta, Melina (1) | Australian writer and teacher |
| Marden, Orison Swett (1) | American author |
| Marley, Bob (7) | Jamaican singer, songwriter and musician |
| Márquez, Gabriel Garcia (1) | Columbian author, activist |
| Marquis, Don (3) | full name Donald Robert Perry Marquis, American comedian and author |
| Marr, Melissa (3) | American author |
| Mars, Bruno (1) | stage name of Peter Gene Hernandez, American singer, songwriter and producer |
| Marshall, Peter (2) | English author |
| Martin, George R. R. (5) | American novelist, screenwriter, and television producer |
| Martin, Steve (2) | American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician |
| Maugham, William Somerset (4) | English author |
| Mauriac, Francois (1) | French author |
| Maurois, Andre (1) | French author, historian |
| McCarthy, Cormac (1) | American author |
| McCay, James T. (1) | American author |
| McCourt, Malachy (1) | Irish-American actor, author and politician |
| McEwan, Ian (1) | English author |
| McLaughlin, Mignon (1) | American author and journalist |
| Mead, Richelle (5) | American author |
| Mencken, Henry Louis (12) | American author, criticist |
| Meri, Lennart Georg (1) | Estonian-born author, director, politician |
| Meyer, Joyce (1) | pen name of Pauline Joyce Hutchison Meyer, American author and speaker |
| Meyer, Stephenie (29) | American author |
| Michener, James A. (1) | American author |
| Miller, Donald (2) | American author and public speaker |
| Miller, Henry (1) | American author and painter |
| Milligan, Spike (1) | Irish-born author, poet, comedian, musician |
| Mitchell, Margaret (1) | American author |
| Mlodinow, Leonard (4) | American physicist, author and screenwriter |
| Moning, Karen Marie (1) | American author |
| Montagu, Elizabeth (1) | English-born author |
| Montgomery, Lucy Maud (3) | Canadian author |
| Moore, Christopher (9) | American author |
| Moore, George (1) | Irish-born author and poet |
| Morgenstern, Christian (1) | German author and poet |
| Morley, Christopher (3) | American journalist, author and poet |
| Morris, William (1) | English artist, writer |
| Morrison, Jim (7) | American singer, author, poet, director |
| Mortman, Doris (1) | American author |
| Muir, John (1) | Scottish-born American scientist and author |
| Murakami, Haruki (14) | Japanese author and translator |
| Myss, Caroline (1) | American author |
| N | |
| Navabi, Armin (12) | Iranian Canadian atheist, secular activist, and author |
| Neruda, Pablo (1) | Chilean-born author |
| Nhat Hanh, Thich (4) | Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet |
| Nicholls, David (3) | English author |
| Nightingale, Earl (1) | American author, motivational speaker |
| Nin, Anais (1) | French-American author |
| Nizer, Louis (1) | English-born American lawyer and author |
| Noel, Alyson (34) | American author |
| Noll, Peter (8) | Swiss lawyer, professor and author |
| O | |
| Oldman, Gary (2) | English actor, author, filmdirector, and producer |
| Oliver, Lauren (3) | American author |
| Oppenheim, James (1) | American poet, author |
| Orben, Robert (4) | American author and magician |
| Orwell, George (17) | English author, criticist, journalist |
| Ottolenghi, Yotam (1) | Israeli-British chef, restaurant owner, and food writer |
| Örkény, István (2) | Hungarian author, playwright |
| P | |
| Pagels, Douglas (1) | American author |
| Paine, Thomas (6) | English-American author and politician |
| Palahniuk, Chuck (53) | American author |
| Paolini, Christopher (13) | American author |
| Pariser, Eli (26) | American author, political and internet activist |
| Parker, Dorothy (1) | American author, poet |
| Parker, Gilbert (1) | Canadian-born English author and politician |
| Parsons, Paul (1) | American writer, journalist |
| Patrick, Cat (1) | American author |
| Patterson, James (6) | American author |
| Peale, Norman Vincent (1) | Writer and clergyman |
| Pearsall Smith, Logan (1) | American author |
| Peiffer, Vera (4) | German author and psychotherapeutist |
| Perri, Christina (2) | American singer and songwriter |
| Petty, Tom (2) | American singer and songwriter |
| Picoult, Jodi (21) | American author |
| Piercy, Marge (1) | American poet, author, and activist |
| Pike, Albert (1) | American lawyer, author, soldier |
| Pine, Albert (1) | American author |
| Pinero, Arthur Wing (1) | English actor, author and director |
| Pinter, Harold (1) | English screenwriter, director and actor |
| Piper, John (1) | American Christian preacher and author |
| Plath, Sylvia (3) | American author and poet |
| Poe, Edgar Allan (11) | American author, poet |
| Pohl, Frederick (1) | full name Frederik George Pohl, Jr., American science fiction writer and editor |
| Potts, Rolf (5) | American travel writer |
| Pratchett, Terry (42) | English author |
| Proust, Marcel (5) | French author, criticist |
| Puzo, Mario Gianluigi (1) | American author |
| Q | |
| Quillen, Robert (1) | American author and comedian |
| Quincey, Thomas de (1) | English author |
| R | |
| Ramsey, Dave (1) | American businessman and author |
| Rand, Ayn (8) | Russian-born American author and philosopher |
| Raymo, Chet (1) | American writer, educator |
| Renard, Jules (3) | French author |
| Rice, Anne (9) | American author |
| Richards, Johnathan (2) | former Federal prison inmate, author |
| Ricotti, Sonia (1) | Canadian author and motivational speaker |
| Ridley, Matt (5) | English journalist, author, businessman |
| Ritchie, Guy (1) | English screenwriter and movie maker |
| Robbins, Anthony (2) | American author |
| Robbins, Tom (2) | American author |
| Robbins, Tony (1) | American author and motivational speaker |
| Roberts, Gregory David (1) | Australian author |
| Roberts, Nora (1) | American author |
| Rochefoucauld, Francois de La (2) | French author |
| Roth, Veronica (2) | American author |
| Rouda, Kaira (1) | American writer |
| Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (4) | French philosopher, author and composer |
| Rovelli, Carlo (20) | Italian physicist and author |
| Rowling, J. K. (9) | English author |
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