Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.

- Ellen Hopkins

I still like to make crank calls.

- Kate Walsh

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

- Mark Twain

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

- William Dean Howells