| 作者 | zuò zhě | author / writer |   |
| 笔者 | bǐ zhě | the author / the writer (usu. refers to oneself) | |
| 文学家 | wén xué jiā | writer / man of letters / CL:個|个[ge4] | |
| 作手 | zuò shǒu | writer / expert | |
| 做手 | zuò shǒu | to put one's hand to sth / to set about / skillful hands / worker / writer | |
| 全集 | quán jí | omnibus / complete works (of a writer or artist) | |
| 秀才 | xiù cai | a person who has passed the county level imperial exam (historical) / scholar / skillful writer / fine talent | |
| 写手 | xiě shǒu | person who writes articles - newspapers, magazines, blogs (informal) / scribe / copyist / a talented writer of articles or of calligraphy | |
| 琼瑶 | Qióng Yáo | Chiung Yao (1938-), Taiwanese writer | |
| 苏轼 | Sū Shì | Su Shi (1037-1101), aka Su Dongpo 蘇東坡|苏东坡[Su1 Dong1 po1], Song dynasty writer, calligrapher and public official, one of the Three Su's 三蘇|三苏[San1 Su1] and one of the Eight Giants of Tang and Song Prose 唐宋八大家[Tang2 Song4 Ba1 Da4 jia1] | |
| 漫画家 | màn huà jiā | cartoon writer (from Japanese mangaka) | |
| 苏东坡 | Sū Dōng pō | Su Dongpo, another name for Su Shi 蘇軾|苏轼 / (1037-1101), northern Song writer and calligrapher | |
| 手笔 | shǒu bǐ | sth written or painted in one's own hand / (of a writer, calligrapher or painter) skill / style / hand / (fig.) style shown in spending money, handling business etc / scale | |
| 雨果 | Yǔ guǒ | Hugo (name) / Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French writer | |
| 朱熹 | Zhū Xī | Zhu Xi or Chu Hsi (1130-1200), also known as Master Zhu 朱子[Zhu1 zi3], Song dynasty Confucian writer and propagandist, founder of neo-Confucianism | |
| 王安石 | Wáng An1 shí | Wang Anshi (1021-1086), Song dynasty politician and writer, one of the Eight Giants 唐宋八大家 | |
| 代写 | dài xiě | to write as substitute for sb / a ghost writer / plagiarism | |
| 王朔 | Wáng Shuò | Wang Shuo (1958-), Chinese writer, director and actor | |
| 陶渊明 | Táo Yuān míng | Tao Yuanming (c. 365-427), Jin dynasty writer and poet | |
| 词人 | cí rén | writer of 詞|词[ci2] (a kind of Classical Chinese poem) / person of literary talent | |
| 欧阳修 | Oū yáng Xiū | Ouyang Xiu (1007-1072), Northern Song dynasty prose writer and historian | |
| 卡夫卡 | Kǎ fū kǎ | Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Czech Jewish writer | |
| 张华 | Zhāng Huà | Zhang Hua (232-300), Western Jin writer, poet and politician / Zhang Hua (1958-1982), student held up as a martyr after he died saving an old peasant from a septic tank / other Zhang Hua's too numerous to mention | |
| 泰戈尔 | Tài gē ěr | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Indian poet and writer | |
| 高尔基 | Gāo ěr jī | Gorkii (name) / Maxim Gorkii (1868-1936), Russian proletarian writer and propagandist | |
| 成名作 | chéng míng zuò | seminal work that propels a writer (or artist, composer etc) to fame | |
| 文豪 | wén háo | literary giant / great writer / eminent writer | |
| 徐霞客 | Xú Xiá kè | Xu Xiake (1587-1641), Ming dynasty travel writer and geographer, author of Xu Xiake's Travel Diaries 徐霞客遊記|徐霞客游记[Xu2 Xia2 ke4 You2 ji4] | |
| 痞子蔡 | Pǐ zi Cài | Rowdy Cai (1969-), Taiwanese Internet writer | |
| 叶圣陶 | Yè Shèng táo | Ye Shengtao (1894-1988), writer and editor, known esp. for children's books | |
| 米尔顿 | Mǐ ěr dùn | Milton (name) / John Milton (1608-1674), English republican writer and poet, author of Paradise Lost | |
| 江平 | Jiāng Píng | Jiang Ping (1920-), academic lawyer, writer on ethnicity and legal systems | |
| 阿来 | A1 lái | Alai (1959-), ethnic Tibetan Chinese writer, awarded Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2000 for his novel 塵埃落定|尘埃落定[Chen2 ai1 luo4 ding4] "Red Poppies" | |
| 谭嗣同 | Tán Sì tóng | Tan Sitong (1865-1898), Qing writer and politician, one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 / of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898 | |
| 萧红 | Xiāo Hóng | Xiao Hong (1911-1942), prominent woman writer, originally from Heilongjiang | |
| 刘慈欣 | Liú Cí xīn | Liu Cixin (1963-), Chinese science fiction writer | |
| 文宗 | wén zōng | (literary) writer whose works are venerated as exemplary / eminent writer | |
| 严复 | Yán Fù | Yan Fu (1853-1921), influential Chinese writer and translator of Western books, esp. on social sciences | |
| 契诃夫 | Qì hē fū | Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian writer famous for his short stories and plays | |
| 莫泊桑 | Mò bó sāng | Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), French novelist and short story writer | |
| 刘恒 | Liú Héng | Liu Heng, personal name of Han emperor Han Wendi 漢文帝|汉文帝 / Liu Heng (1954-), Chinese writer | |
| 萧伯纳 | Xiāo bó nà | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish dramatist and writer | |
| 大仲马 | Dà Zhòng mǎ | Alexandre Dumas, père (1802-1870), French writer | |
| 李渔 | Lǐ Yú | Li Yu (1611-c. 1680), late Ming and early Qing writer and dramatist | |
| 李贽 | Lǐ Zhì | Li Zhi (1527-1602), late Ming philosopher, historian and writer | |
| 岳阳楼记 | Yuè yáng lóu jì | On Yueyang Tower (1046), essay by Song writer Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹[Fan4 Zhong4yan1] | |
| 笔杆子 | bǐ gǎn zi | pen / an effective writer | |
| 夏衍 | Xià Yǎn | Xia Yan (1900-1995), Chinese writer, playwright, socialist critic and movie pioneer | |
| 赛珍珠 | Sài Zhēn zhū | Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), American writer known for her novels on Asian cultures, Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize laureate | |
| 东坡肉 | Dōng pō ròu | stir-fried pork, favorite of Northern Song writer Su Shi 蘇軾|苏轼, a.k.a. Su Dongpo 蘇東坡|苏东坡 | |
| 叶永烈 | Yè Yǒng liè | Ye Yonglie (1940-), popular science writer | |
| 宋濂 | Sòng Lián | Song Lian (1310-1381), Ming dynasty writer, historian and politician | |
| 沈约 | Shěn Yuē | Shen Yue (441-513), writer and historian during Liang of Southern dynasties 南朝梁, compiler of History of Song of the Southern dynasties 宋書|宋书 | |
| 曾巩 | Zēng Gǒng | Zeng Gong (1019-1083), Song dynasty writer, one of the eight giants 唐宋八大家[Tang2-Song4 ba1da4jia1] | |
| 纪伯伦 | Jì bó lún | Khalil Gibran (1883-1931), Lebanese poet, writer and artist | |
| 刘义庆 | Liú Yì qìng | Liu Yiqing (403-444), writer of South Song Dynasty, compiler and editor of A New Account of the Tales of the World 世說新語|世说新语[Shi4 shuo1 Xin1 yu3] | |
| 陆羽 | Lù Yǔ | Lu Yu (733-804), Chinese writer from Tang dynasty, known for his obsession with tea | |
| 秦牧 | Qín Mù | Qin Mu (1919-1992), educator and prolific writer | |
| 刘晓波 | Liú Xiǎo bō | Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), Beijing writer and human rights activist, organizer of petition Charter 2008 零八憲章|零八宪章[Ling2 ba1 Xian4 zhang1], Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2010 | |
| 冰壶秋月 | bīng hú qiū yuè | jade ice jug and autumn moon (idiom, from poem by Song writer Su Dongpo 蘇東坡|苏东坡) / fig. spotless white and pure / flawless person | |
| 文如其人 | wén rú qí rén | the writing style mirrors the writer (idiom) | |
| 左思 | Zuǒ Sī | Zuo Si (3rd century), Jin dynasty writer and poet | |
| 罗蒙诺索夫 | Luó méng nuò suǒ fū | Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765), Russian polymath and writer | |
| 奥斯特洛夫斯基 | Aò sī tè luò fū sī jī | Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904-1936), Soviet socialist realist writer / Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-1886), Russian playwright | |
| 冰心 | Bīng Xīn | Bing Xin (1900-1999), female poet and children's writer | |
| 郭敬明 | Guō Jìng míng | Guo Jingming (1983-), Chinese young-adult fiction writer and teen pop idol | |
| 郭沫若 | Guō Mò ruò | Guo Moruo (1892-1978), writer, communist party intellectual and cultural apparatchik | |
| 徐志摩 | Xú Zhì mó | Xu Zhimo (1897-1931), writer and poet | |
| 袁宏道 | Yuán Hóng dào | Yuan Hongdao (1568-1610), Ming dynasty poet and travel writer | |
| 于丹 | Yú Dān | Yu Dan (1965-), female scholar, writer, educator and TV presenter | |
| 伊斯曼 | Yī sī màn | Eastman (name) / George Eastman (1854-1932), US inventor and founder of Kodak 柯達|柯达[Ke1 da2] / Max F. Eastman (1883-1969), US socialist writer, subsequently severe critic of USSR | |
| 作曲者 | zuò qǔ zhě | composer / song writer | |
| 先天下之忧而忧，后天下之乐而乐 | xiān tiān xià zhī yōu ér yōu , hòu tiān xià zhī lè ér lè | to be the first to worry about affairs of state, and the last to enjoy oneself (quotation from the essay On Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓記|岳阳楼记[Yue4yang2 Lou2 Ji4] by Song writer Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹[Fan4 Zhong4yan1]) | |
| 儿女英雄传 | Er2 nu:3 Yīng xióng Zhuàn | The Gallant Maid, novel by Manchu-born Qing dynasty writer 文康[Wen2 Kang1] | |
| 刘宾雁 | Liú Bīn yàn | Liu Binyan (1925-2005), journalist and novelist, condemned by Mao as rightist faction in 1957, subsequently dissident writer | |
| 博客写手 | bó kè xiě shǒu | blogger / blog writer | |
| 吴玉章 | Wú Yù zhāng | Wu Yuzhang (1878-1966), writer, educator and communist politician | |
| 吴自牧 | Wú Zì mù | Wu Zimu (lived c. 1270), writer at the end of the Song dynasty | |
| 周瘦鹃 | Zhōu Shòu juān | Zhou Shoujuan (1895-1968), writer, translator and art collector in Suzhou, a victim of the Cultural Revolution | |
| 姚思廉 | Yáo Sī lián | Yao Silian (557-637), Tang writer and compiler of 梁書|梁书[Liang2 shu1] and 陳書|陈书[Chen2 shu1] | |
| 宋祁 | Sòng Qí | Song Qi (998-1061), Song dynasty poet and writer, coauthor of History of the Later Tang Dynasty 新唐書|新唐书 | |
| 岐路灯 | Qí lù Dēng | Lamp in the Side Street (c. 1777), novel by Qing dynasty writer Li Lüyuan 李綠園|李绿园[Li3 Lu:4 yuan2] | |
| 张二鸿 | Zhāng Er4 hóng | Jung Chang 張戎|张戎[Zhang1 Rong2] (1952-), British-Chinese writer, author of Wild Swans 野天鵝|野天鹅[Ye3 Tian1 e2] and Mao: The Unknown Story 毛澤東·鮮為人知的故事|毛泽东·鲜为人知的故事[Mao2 Ze2 dong1 · / Xian1 wei2 ren2 zhi1 de5 Gu4 shi5] | |
| 张天翼 | Zhāng Tiān yì | Zhang Tianyi (1906-1985), children's writer, author of prize-winning fairy tale Secret of the Magic Gourd 寶葫蘆的秘密|宝葫芦的秘密[Bao3 hu2 lu5 de5 Mi4 mi4] | |
| 张戎 | Zhāng Róng | Jung Chang (1952-), British-Chinese writer, name at birth Zhang Erhong 張二鴻|张二鸿[Zhang1 Er4 hong2], author of Wild Swans 野天鵝|野天鹅[Ye3 Tian1 e2] and Mao: The Unknown Story 毛澤東·鮮為人知的故事|毛泽东·鲜为人知的故事[Mao2 Ze2 dong1 · / Xian1 wei2 ren2 zhi1 de5 Gu4 shi5] | |
| 张溥 | Zhāng Pǔ | Ming dynasty scholar (1602-1641), prolific writer, proponent of the Fushe 復社|复社[Fu4she4] cultural renewal movement, author of Five Men’s Tombstone Inscription 五人墓碑記|五人墓碑记[Wu3 Ren2 Mu4bei1ji4] | |
| 徐星 | Xú Xīng | Xu Xing (1969-), Chinese palaeontologist / Xu Xing (1956-), Chinese short story writer | |
| 徐祯卿 | Xú Zhēn qīng | Xu Zhenqing (1479-1511), Ming writer, one of Four great southern talents of the Ming 江南四大才子 | |
| 德薄能鲜 | dé bó néng xiǎn | little virtue and meager abilities (idiom) / I'm a humble person and not much use at anything (Song writer Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修[Ou1 yang2 Xiu1]) | |
| 怪人奥尔·扬科维奇 | | "Weird Al" Yankovic (1959-), US singer and writer of parody songs | |
| 戴名世 | Dài Míng shì | Dai Mingshi (1653-1713), early Qing writer | |
| 昭披耶帕康 | Zhāo pī yē pà kāng | Chao Phya Phra Klang, 18th century Thai politician and writer | |
| 曹余章 | Cáo Yú zhāng | Cao Yuzhang (1924-1996), modern writer and publisher, author of Tales from 5000 Years of Chinese History 上下五千年[Shang4 xia4 Wu3 Qian1 nian2] | |
| 本杰明·富兰克林 | | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), American writer, scientist, inventor, politician and diplomat | |
| 李娃传 | Lǐ Wá Zhuàn | Tale of Courtesan Li Wa, novel by Tang writer Bai Xingjian 白行簡|白行简[Bai2 Xing2 jian3] along the lines of La Traviata, favorite opera plot | |
| 李朝威 | Lǐ Cháo wēi | Li Chaowei (c. 766-c. 820), Tang writer of fantasy fiction 傳奇|传奇, author of 柳毅傳|柳毅传 | |
| 李格非 | Lǐ Gé fēi | Li Gefei (active c. 1090), Northern Song writer and father of southern Song female poet Li Qingzhao 李清照 | |
| 李百药 | Lǐ Bǎi yào | Li Baiyao (565-648), Tang dynasty writer and historian, compiler of History of Qi of the Northern dynasties 北齊書|北齐书 | |
| 李绿园 | Lǐ Lu:4 yuán | Li Lüyuan (1707-1790), Qing dynasty writer, author of novel Lamp in the Side Street 岐路燈|岐路灯[Qi2 lu4 Deng1] | |
| 李翱 | Lǐ Aó | Li Ao (774-836), Tang dynasty scholar and writer, colleague of Han Yu 韓愈|韩愈[Han2 Yu4] in promoting classical writing 古文運動|古文运动[gu3 wen2 yun4 dong4] | |
