TURTLE ON A FENCE
The Handbook of Magazine Article Writing contains this illustration by Philip Barry Osborne: “Alex Haley, the author of Roots, has a picture in his office, showing a turtle sitting atop a fence. The picture is there to remind him of a lesson he learned long ago: ‘If you see a turtle on a fence post, you know he had some help.’ “Says Alex, ‘Any time I start thinking, Wow, isn’t this marvelous what I’ve done! I look at that picture and remember how this turtle — me — got up on that post.'” Sandy Reynolds, St. Catharines, Ontario, Leadership Magazine, Fall 1989, pg. 50
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