1, Zola

Young Zola was very poor. In order to stave off hunger, he took a sparrow catcher to catch sparrows on the roof, and used the wire to hang curtains to skewer the sparrows and roast them on the fire; in order to insist on writing, he sent his few clothes to the pawnshop, and could only use quilts to keep out the cold.

Occasionally get a candle head, he will be as happy as a festival, because tonight you can read and write. It was poverty that sharpened his will, and he finally wrote the sensational "Lugun Magar Family".

2. Miller

Miller was a famous French writer in the 19th century. Born in a peasant family, he studied painting with someone when he was young and left his teacher because he was dissatisfied with his teacher's flashy art style. Later, he made a living in Paris by painting nudes. Gradually, he became tired of this kind of art, but he could not sell his paintings on other subjects, and therefore, he was once trapped in the abyss of poverty, anguish and despair.

To make ends meet, he had to leave Paris and live in the countryside. In the countryside, he still could not get rid of poverty, but the beautiful nature, simple farmers and farm life, stirred the painter's creative passion. He endured all the hardships, insisted on creating, and produced many famous works, such as The Sower.

3, Niccolò Paganini

Niccolò Paganini is an Italian violinist and composer, known as the "violinist practiced on the solo violin". His artistic path was bumpy. He was born into a family of small businessmen, and is said to have spent 20 years in prison for political crimes.

But even behind bars, he was never discouraged, but insisted on studying in prison. By the prison window, with a fiddle with only one string left, he insisted on practicing hard for decades, and finally reached a state of excellence in playing skills. His compositions and performances, unrestrained and passionate, had a greater influence on the Romantic composers of his time.

4. Helen Keller

Helen Keller, a deaf and blind American writer and educator, lost her sight and hearing when she was one and a half years old, which was unimaginable and intolerable pain for ordinary people. However, Helen did not yield to fate. In the teacher's education, under the help of her strong perseverance, she overcame the disability, learned to speak, with the finger "listening" and mastered five kinds of words.

At the age of 24, she graduated with honors from the prestigious Radcliffe College for Women at Harvard University. She devoted her life to working for the benefit of the world's blind and deaf, and was honored by the governments and people of many countries.

In 1959, the United Nations launched the "Helen Keller" campaign. Her autobiography, The Story of My Life, has become a classic of English literature and has been translated into many languages and widely distributed.

5, Jack London

Jack London since childhood, poor, but he was ambitious to design a big writer for himself, with the pen to transform society's ambitious future. In order to become a writer, he took a year of remedial classes in high school and then enrolled in the University of California, but dropped out after only six months because he had trouble paying tuition.

Dropping out of school didn't shake his determination to be a writer, and he changed his mind, taking society as a classroom for learning and studying even more tirelessly. The works of Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, etc. made him learn to think; the works of Shakespeare, Goethe, Balzac, etc. made him learn to write. He began to write and submit articles, but they were returned again and again.

But he was not discouraged. When life was difficult, he lived on pawning and made time to write. Daytime time is not enough to write at night; diligently make notes, indexing, copying cards. Finally, in 1890, published his debut novel "to the hunter", and then the famous books, become a big writer.