Some of history’s greatest thinkers had some quirky routines. Their secrets revealed...

How did Ben Franklin start his day? In the buff. 

Mr. “early to bed, early to rise” spent an hour each morning reading and writing, in the nude. Here are some more quirky secrets to success:

• Beethoven started his day by making coffee - and counting. He insisted on using 60 beans per cup.

• French poet Victor Hugo liked eggs for breakfast, raw.

• Sigmund Freud had his barber trim his beard, every morning.

• Ernest Hemingway preferred to write standing up.

• Thomas Wolfe also wrote standing up, using the top of a refrigerator as his desktop. He was 6'6".

• German poet Friedrich Schiller claimed the smell of apples rotting in his desk drawer was the secret to stimulating his creativity.

• After dinner, Mark Twain would read the day's writing aloud to his family and ask for their feedback.

• Author Truman Capote couldn’t think unless he was lying down. He also couldn’t stand more than three cigarette butts in the ashtray.

• Stephen King writes every day of the year and aims for 2,000 words a day. It takes about five hours.

• Woody Allen gets in the shower, sometimes multiple times per day, to get his creative juices flowing.