1 Balzac had a rough life. Lack of maternal love since childhood. His family and mother are indifferent to him, and he seems to be a superfluous person in the family. Balzac later recalled this life and said angrily, "I never knew what maternal love was." "I experienced the most terrible childhood in my life." When I grow up, I am determined to engage in simple literary creation. Be a "king of literature". I have been writing at my desk in the attic all day since the summer of 18 19. The attic is just around the corner. His residence is very shabby. It is hot in summer and cold in winter. He has no day, no night, no entertainment, and always keeps writing. As a result, I was cheated in the process of dealing with booksellers and was heavily in debt. The debt is as high as 65438+ ten thousand francs. He moved six times to avoid debt. He said to his friend, "I often worry about bread, candles and paper." Creditors persecuted me like rabbits. I often run around like a rabbit. "Barkonk, a diligent writer all his life, often works continuously 18 hours. In less than 20 years, he wrote 9 1 novels. He has a wide influence in the world, but he has spent his life in poverty and pain. He once summed himself up in one sentence: "All my life's labor was spent in pain and poverty. Often not understood. "

Cervantes,/kloc-a famous Spanish writer in the 6th century. His masterpiece Don Quixote is popular all over the world. Known as an immortal work. Cervantes suffered a lot in his life. He was born into a declining noble and poor family. He went out with his father to make a living since he was a child. Joined the army at the age of 22, and in the naval battle with Turkey, his left hand was disabled. Later, he was captured by pirates and sold to Algeria as a slave. He went through a lot of hardships. After being released by his parents, he worked as a quartermaster in the navy and was unjustly imprisoned. At that time, a family of seven people lived a life of hunger and cold. In this predicament, he wrote a number of influential works such as Don Quixote, Numancia, The Story of Punishing Evil and Promoting Good, Galatia, Bahners's Travels, eight new comedies and eight new inter-act farce.

Beethoven was a great German composer. His works have a far-reaching influence on the development of western music. 1/kloc-0 started writing piano sonatas at the age of 0/,and/kloc-0 joined the band at the age of 3. When I was 22, I went to Vienna, the city of music, to study music. Almost at this time, I suffered from ear disease and my hearing began to decline. From then on, he struggled with terrible deafness, and musicians were deaf, which was a cruel fatal injury! If there is no persistent pursuit and perseverance for music, it will definitely fall at this unlucky foot. But in the face of the challenge of bad luck, he shouted: "I want to hold the fate by the throat." Most of his works were created after suffering from ear diseases. The greatest work of his life, the Ninth Symphony, was written after he was completely deaf. When the Ninth Symphony premiered in Vienna for the first time, there was a storm of cheers in the hall. When Beethoven appeared, the audience applauded five times. According to etiquette, only three applause were given to the royal family. However, Beethoven didn't realize this because he couldn't hear anything.

Wu, an outstanding writer in Qing Dynasty, was born in a poor family. When he wrote The Scholars, he often went hungry because there was no rice to cook at home. Once I couldn't eat for two days in a row, and I was dizzy with hunger. I was lying in bed panting and asked my wife for a pen to continue writing a book. His wife advised him with tears. Just then, a relative sent three buckets of rice and two thousand copper coins. Wu told his wife to make a fire and cook. He got out of bed at once and went to the desk to write.

During World War II, the Czech writer Fuchik was imprisoned by German fascists. He was tortured black and blue. He was in a coma for several weeks. As soon as he woke up, he asked Klinski, a compassionate prisoner, for a pen and paper and wrote an article on the bed board. Every time I write a chapter, Toklinski secretly takes it out of prison. He endured the pain of his wounds all over, sweating heavily on his forehead, dripping wet the manuscript paper and soaking the bed board, and still insisted on writing. After his sacrifice, his book was published, and now people read this book, which is the famous report under the gallows.

Ostrovsky, a famous writer in the former Soviet Union, was paralyzed and blind, but he didn't bow to his fate and decided to write the novel How Steel was Tempered. At first, he dictated and recorded. Later, he thought it was always good to let others do it for him. So he made a picture frame out of cardboard, put it on the manuscript paper, and touched the picture frame with his hand to write. He endured the pain, gritted his teeth and kept writing page after page. It took nearly five years to finally complete this world masterpiece.

Chen Ping was famous in the Western Han Dynasty. When he was young, his family was poor and he lived alone with his brother. In order to maintain his father's orders, he was glorious, childless, and studied behind closed doors, but his eldest sister-in-law did not allow him. In order to eliminate the contradiction between brother and sister, he endured humiliation again and again. As the eldest sister-in-law became more and more fierce, he finally ran away from home and wanted to travel around the world. After being found by his brother, he didn't. Finally, an old man came here to teach for free. After he finished his studies, he assisted Liu Bang and achieved great success.

When Zhang Haidi was five years old, she was completely unconscious from the chest down and could not take care of herself. Doctors think that paraplegic patients like this can hardly live beyond 27 years old. Under the threat of death, Zhang Haidi realized that his life might not last long. She is sad because she has no more time to work. She cherishes every minute more and prolongs her life with diligent study and work. She wrote in her diary: "I can't live in mediocrity." If you are alive, you have to study and do more for the masses. " Since it is a meteor, we should leave the light to the world and give everything to the people. "1970, she followed her parents who led the educated youth to the countryside and settled in Shanglou Brigade in Shenxian County. Seeing the pain caused by the lack of medical care and medicine for the local people, she came up with the idea of learning medical skills to relieve the suffering of the people. She used her pocket money to buy medical books, thermometers, stethoscopes, mannequins and medicines, and studied books on acupuncture, human anatomy, internal medicine and practical pediatrics. In order to identify the internal organs, she cut open the hearts, lungs, livers and kidneys of small animals for observation. In order to be familiar with acupoints, she drew red and blue dots on herself, practiced needles on her body and felt the acupuncture sensation. Many things happen. She finally mastered certain medical skills and was able to treat some common and frequently-occurring diseases. For more than ten years, she has treated 10000 people.

Kuang Heng is diligent and studious, but there is no candle lighting at home. There are candles in the neighbor's house, but the light can't reach his house, so Kuang Heng cut a hole in the wall to attract the neighbor's light, so that the light can shine on the book and read. There is a big family in the same town who is illiterate and rich. There are many books at home. Kuang Heng went to his house as an employee, and he didn't want to be paid. The host was surprised and asked him why. He said, "I hope I can get your book and read it through." Hearing this, the master sighed deeply and lent him the book. Therefore, Kuang Heng became a great scholar.

During the Jin Dynasty (10), Che Yin studied tirelessly since he was a child, but his father could not provide him with a good learning environment because of his poor family. In order to maintain food and clothing, there is no extra money to buy him lamp oil for evening study. To this end, he can only use this time during the day to recite poems. One night in summer, he was reciting an article in the yard when he suddenly saw many fireflies flying at low altitude. The flashing light is a bit dazzling in the dark. He thought, if you put many fireflies together, wouldn't it become a lamp? So, he went to find a white silk bag, immediately caught dozens of fireflies and put them in, then tied the mouth of the bag and hung it up. It's not very bright, but it can be used for reading. From then on, as long as there are fireflies, he will catch one to use as a lamp. Because he studied hard and practiced hard, he finally became an official in a high position.

1 1 During the Jin Dynasty, Sun Kang could not read at night, because he had no money to buy lamp oil, so he had to go to bed early. He felt it a pity to let time pass in vain. One night in the middle of the night, he woke up from his sleep, turned his head out of the window and found a ray of light in the window. It turned out to be a reflection of heavy snow, which can be used for reading. So he was so tired that he immediately got dressed, took out his book and went outside. The snow reflected on the wide earth is much brighter than the snow in the room. Sun Kang ignored the cold and immediately read a book. His hands and feet were frozen stiff, so he got up and ran, rubbing his fingers at the same time. From then on, every snowy night, he never missed this good opportunity and studied tirelessly. This spirit of hard work has promoted his knowledge to advance by leaps and bounds and become a knowledgeable person. Later, he became a big official.

12 Tong Dizhou is a famous biologist in China and an internationally renowned scientist. Tong Dizhou was born in a remote mountain village in Yinxian County, Zhejiang Province. Because of his poor family, he studied cultural knowledge with his father since childhood and didn't enter school until 17 years old. When he was in middle school, he studied very hard because of his poor foundation, and his average score at the end of the first semester was only 45 points. The school ordered him to drop out of school or repeat the grade. After his repeated requests, the school agreed to let him try out with his class for one semester. Since then, he has been with the "street lamp": at dawn, he reads a foreign language under the street lamp; After turning off the lights at night, he learns to review himself under the street lamp. Many things happen. At the end of the term, his average score reached more than 70, and he also got 100 in geometry. This incident made him realize a truth: I can do what others can do through hard work. There is no genius in the world, genius is bought with labor. After that, it became his motto.

13 Confucius, the representative figure of Confucianism, is famous, and people respect him as the spirit of all things. His father died when he was three years old, and he was often discriminated against by his people. At that time, there was neither papermaking nor printing, and all the works circulated depended on copying. If you want to keep other people's works, you must carve them on the bamboo piece word by word with a knife. Put the carved bamboo slips in order. That was the book at that time. The Book of Changes was carved by Confucius, so he often reads it. Confucius became a celebrity in such adversity because he read too many times and his strong leather rope was broken several times.

14 Mao Zedong, a great man in China politics, led the working people in China to overthrow the three mountains and bury the exploitation system. When he was a child, he walked more than 20 miles, borrowed books from relatives and friends, went out to herd cattle during the day and studied hard under the dim soybean oil lamp at night. It is this spirit of pursuing knowledge and perseverance that has given him lofty ideals and ambitions and made him an outstanding people's leader in China.

15 Gorky, a famous writer, has suffered the bitterness of the world since he was a child. Although he was too tired to work, he refused to give up reading for a moment. He often plagiarized other people's works at the urging of his boss and eventually became a famous writer. He wrote his life experience into his autobiography trilogy "Childhood", "The World" and "My University", which influenced several generations.

16 When Qu Yuan was a child, he hid in a cave and secretly read the Book of Songs, regardless of the wind and rain, regardless of the cold. For three years, he familiarized himself with 305 Poems of the Book of Songs, and gained rich nutrition from these folk songs, eventually becoming a great poet.

17 During the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a man named Sun Jing, a famous politician. At first, because of his shallow knowledge, he was not reused, and even his family looked down on him, which greatly stimulated him. He made up his mind to study hard, often closed the door and continued reading alone. Reading from morning till night every day, often forgetting to eat and sleep. After studying for a long time, I am tired, but I still don't rest. After a long time, I was too tired to doze off. Afraid of affecting his study, he came up with a special method. In ancient times, men had long hair. He found a rope and tied it firmly to the beam. When he is tired of reading, he dozes off. When his head is lowered, the rope will hold his hair and hurt his scalp, wake up immediately and continue to study.

18 During the Warring States Period, there was a man named Su Qin, who was also a famous politician. When I was young, because of the lack of knowledge, I went to many places to do things and was not taken seriously. After returning home, his family was also very cold and looked down on him. This is a great stimulus to him. So, he made up his mind to study hard. He often studies late into the night, is very tired, often takes a nap and wants to sleep. So he thought of a way, prepared an awl and stabbed himself in the thigh when he dozed off. In this way, I suddenly felt pain, woke up by myself, and then insisted on reading.

Sima Qian, 19, suffered great humiliation because of the case of Li Ling, but he finally survived the hardships, inherited the ideals of his parents, assiduously studied the creation of history books, went to the field many times to obtain the truth of historical facts from the people, and wrote a brilliant masterpiece Historical Records.

The Li family has been a doctor for generations, and Li Shizhen not only "collected the Bai family background", but also "visited the four sides" for in-depth investigation. Li Shizhen put on straw sandals, took up his medicine basket, and accompanied by his apprentice Pang Xian and his son Jian Yuan, walked a long way in Shan Ye, visiting famous doctors and scholars, looking for folk prescriptions, observing and collecting medicinal specimens. In this way, after a long-term on-the-spot investigation, Li Shizhen found out many difficult problems of drugs and completed the compilation of Compendium of Materia Medica. Darwin praised it as "an encyclopedia of ancient China".