| Author | Number of Quotations |
| Poul Anderson | 199 |
| Robert A. Heinlein | 194 |
| Isaac Asimov | 146 |
| Edward E. Smith | 124 |
| Larry Niven | 112 |
| Robert Silverberg | 101 |
| David Brin | 96 |
| Arthur C. Clarke | 94 |
| Jack Williamson | 88 |
| John W. Campbell, Jr. | 88 |
| James Blish | 75 |
| Anne McCaffrey | 71 |
| Marion Zimmer Bradley | 69 |
| Murray Leinster | 65 |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | 63 |
| Jerry Pournelle | 59 |
| John Varley | 58 |
| Alan Dean Foster | 56 |
| Edmond Hamilton | 56 |
| Andre Norton | 55 |
| George O. Smith | 55 |
| A. E. van Vogt | 53 |
| Frederik Pohl | 48 |
| Norman Spinrad | 46 |
| Theodore Sturgeon | 45 |
| Charles Stross | 45 |
| Vernor Vinge | 45 |
| Dick Eney | 44 |
| David Weber | 44 |
| Greg Bear | 43 |