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7. Albert Einstein

The Nobel prize wining physicist would often carry his violin with him while going on bird-watching treks. The soulful music he played often made him weep with tears streaming down his cheeks.

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8. Agatha Christie

Heralded as the queen of crime in the golden of age of murder mystery writers, Christie is remembered for her very disoriented style of writing. She never had her own office nor did she take out time to write. She would jot her ideas down whenever the mood struck irrespective of where she was. For this she carried around several notebooks with her. Her treatment for the story-line of her novels were also disorganised where she started with the murder scene before the actual plot of the story.

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9. Shobhaa De

Ashok Chopra recalls the celebrity writer's habit of being generous with her handwriting, filling up a single page with less than 6 sentences. "Her handwriting reminds me of a cockroach which, after a dip in a bottle of ink, is let loose on a sheet of paper."