Neil Gaiman Quotes About Cats

Quotes about: Cats

• When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician -- make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by a mutated boa constrictor -- make good art. IRS on your trail -- make good art. Cat exploded -- make good art. Someone on the Internet thinks what you're doing is stupid or evil or it's all been done before -- make good art.

  Neil Gaiman

  Running, Art, Husband

• I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

  Neil Gaiman

  Kings, Cat, Owning A Pet

  "A Dream of a Thousand Cats". Comic book by Neil Gaiman, The Sandman series, issue #18, 1990.

• She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap and made itself comfortable. The light that came through the picture window was daylight, real golden late-afternoon daylight, not a white mist light. The sky was a robin's-egg blue, and Coraline could see trees and, beyond the trees, green hills, which faded on the horizon into purples and grays. The sky had never seemed so sky, the world had never seemed so world ... Nothing, she thought, had ever been so interesting.

  Neil Gaiman

  Real, Cat, Grandmother

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.162, A&C Black

• What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?' 'Cats don't have names,' it said. 'No?' said Coraline. 'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cat, Names, People

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “Coraline”, p.45, A&C Black

• All cats can see futures, and see echoes of the past. We can watch the passage of creatures from the infinity of now, from all the worlds like ours, only fractionally different. And we follow them with our eyes, ghost things, and the humans see nothing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cat, Eye, Past

  "Dream Country (The Sandman, Book 3)". Book sub-series by Neil Gaiman, July – October 1990.

• When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Good Day, Cat

• Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, Cat, Deserve

  Neil Gaiman (2007). “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie”, Vertigo

• But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?" "Easy," said the cat. "Think of somebody walking around the world. You start out walking away from something and end up coming back to it." "Small world," said Coraline. "It's big enough for her," said the cat. "spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies." Coraline shivered.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cat, Thinking, Walking Away

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing

• We...we could be friends.' We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cat, Elephants, Dancing

• Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’ Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’ He stopped. Then, ‘... Cats?’ he offered, uncertainly.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cat, Names, People

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.43, A&C Black

• That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories. And the memories fade and blend and smudge together.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Memories, Cat

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”, p.48, Hachette UK

• Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cat, Names, People

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “Coraline”, p.45, A&C Black

• She smiled again. "Do you like cat?" she said. "Yes," said Richard. "I quite like cats." Anaesthesia looked relieved. "Thigh?" she asked, "or breast?

  Neil Gaiman

  Cat, Said, Anaesthesia

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Neverwhere”, p.52, Hachette UK

• The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. "Calling cats," it confided, "tends to be a rather overrated activity. Might as well call a whirlwind.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cat, Looks, Calling

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.75, A&C Black

• The cat looked as if it were about to say something sarcastic. Then it flicked its whiskers and said, "Challenge her. There's no guarantee she'll play fair, but her kind of thing loves games and challenges.

  Neil Gaiman

  Sarcastic, Cat, Games

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.76, A&C Black

• The cat dropped the rat between its two front paws. "There are those," it said with a sigh, in tones as smooth as oiled silk, "who have suggested that the tendency of a cat to play with its prey is a merciful one - after all, it permits the occasional funny little running snack to escape, from time to time. How often does your dinner get to escape?

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  Running, Cat, Two

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.89, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Why does she want me?" Coraline asked the cat. "Why does she want me to stay here with her?" "She wants something to love, I think," said the cat. "Something that isn't her. She might want something to eat as well. It's hard to tell with creatures like that.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cat, Thinking, Want Something

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.76, Bloomsbury Publishing

• I think I could be a perfectly decent cat. I've been around cats long enough to know what the rules of being a cat are. When all else fails, wash. And I think I could master the thing that cats do, where they stalk away pretending they meant to do whatever it was in the first place; showing their wounded dignity.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cat, Thinking, Long

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