There is a strange affinity between writers and cats. Poets sing
their praises. And they inspire many to write.
A poet's cat, sedate and grave
As a poet well could wish to have…
- William Cowper
Ah! Little do you know how swiftly fly
The venomed darts of feline jealousy.
- Robert Southey
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures,
and cats like authors for the same reasons.
- Robertson Davies
Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect
method of writing avoidance.
- Dan Greenberg
Cruel, but composed and bland,
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had Tiberius been a cat.
- Matthew Arnold
Fans think they want to see more than the 10 to 20 seconds of Itchy and
Scratchy that we put on the show, but my feeling is less is more. Once
you've skinned and flayed a cat, ripped his head off, made him drink acid
and tied his tongue to the moon, there really isn't that much to say.
- Matt Groening
I like little Pussy, her coat is so warm,
And if I don't hurt her she'll do me no harm.
- Jane Taylor
If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings,
the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.
- Aldous Huxley
Take a cat, nourish it well with milk
And tender meat, make it a couch of silk,
But let it see a mouse along the wall
And it abandones milk and meat and all.
- Chaucer
The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday
games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat
must have three different names...
- T.S. Eliot
The sun rose slowly, like a fiery furball coughed up uneasily onto a
sky-blue carpet by a giant unseen cat.
- Michael McGarel
There has never been a cat
Who couldn't calm me down
By walking slowly
Past my chair
- Rod McKuen
When the tea is brought at five o'clock
And all the neat curtains are drawn with care,
The little black cat with bright green eyes
Is suddenly purring there.
- Harold Monro
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