Elspeth Huxley

Elspeth Joscelin Huxley (Died on 10 January 1997) was an English writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government adviser.

Quotes

 * "“How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.”
 * Flames-Trees-Thika Childhood
 * Optional clarifications, notes on context, etc.


 * “...that's the way to tell a true story from a made-up one. A made-up story always has a neat and tidy end. But true stories don't end, at least until their heroes and heroines die, and not then really because the things they did and didn't do, sometimes live on.”
 * The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

The Flame trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood (2000)

 * ''The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

Quotes about person/work

 * “Perhaps that was their characteristic. They were romantics, and thought of themselves as torch-bearers of civilisation, while all the time in their hearts they loved the dark places, which they did not really think dark at all, and feared the torch.”
 * Quote on settlers on The East African on APRIL 19 2013


 * "Africa is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds"
 * The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)