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Edna Robinson

Born

in Tulsa, Oklahoma, The United States

October 27, 1921

Died

March 26, 1990

Website

http://www.betsyrobinson-writer.com/events.htm

Genre

Fiction

Influences

John Cheever, E.B. White

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Edna Robinson (1921–1990) wrote The Trouble with the Truth (Simon & Schuster/Infinite Words, Feb. 2015) and is represented on Goodreads by her editor/daughter Betsy Robinson. Edna lived all over the U.S. and attended twenty-seven schools before the eighth grade. Early on, she wrote for radio soaps and small-town newspapers’ “Society News.” After graduating from Northwestern University in 1943, she headed for New York City, and in the pre-Mad Men days of advertising, she became not only one of the first female copywriters, but one of the only Jewish copywriters. When directed to the typing pool, she simply refused to accept that being a secretary was her only option and she declared her intention to write. Fortunately her first boss fou ...more

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The Trouble with the Truth
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“People can only tell the truth as they see it.”
― Edna Robinson, The Trouble with the Truth

tags: inspirational

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“The first thing one must want, in order to gain anything, is to be himself gaining. Don't confuse sterile wishing with true wanting.”
― Edna Robinson

tags: inspirational

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“Success, as we categorize it, is a simple and pitiable thing. It's only a matter of degree of wanting, and accident. Wanting plays the major role in everybody's life--accident all the others. The only condition any of us can be sure of in this universe is wanting. How tepid or burning hot the want is depends on accident. But since accident isn't really as accidental as we'd like to think--accident is the great fooler and comforter of mankind--we become 'successful' exactly to the degree we want.”
― Edna Robinson, The Trouble with the Truth

tags: life-experience

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