Cats and Authorsno dogs allowed

Neil GaimanNeil Gaiman has multiple cats and often chronicles their adventures on his blog. The cats he’s had recently include Coconut, Hermione, Pod, Zoe, and the imitable Princess, who Gaiman describes thusly:

“I’ve grown so used to having a bad-tempered but beautiful cat that I need to warn visitors about. She’s outlasted all the cats I loved and all the cats I bonded with. And I think she’s grown very used to me.”

Jean CocteauWith artist Tsuguharu Foujita and the award winner, at a cat show

sponsored by Cocteau’s “Cat Friends” Club of Paris

Jack Kerouac

Jack also loved cats, especially his cat Tyke, whose unfortunate passing he wrote about in loving detail in his memoir Big Sur.

“The next sign is in Frisco itself where after a night of perfect sleep in an old skid row hotel room I go to see Monsanto at his City Lights bookstore and he’s smiling and glad to see me, says ‘We were coming out to see you next weekend you should have waited,’ but there something else in his expression — When we’re alone he says, ‘Your mother wrote and said your cat is dead.’

Jean Paul Sartre

“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”

Ernest Hemingway

Margaret Atwood

Raymond Chandler“Come around sometime when your face is clean and we shall discuss the state of the world, the foolishness of humans, the prevalence of horsemeat, although we prefer the tenderloin side of a porterhouse, and our common difficulty in getting doors opened at the right time and meals served at more frequent intervals. I have got my staff up to five a day, but there is still room for improvement.” — Taki (Chandler’s cat)

William S. Burroughs

Mark Twain

“When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.”

— Mark Twain

Mr. Gorey was definitely not a dog person.

Edward Gorey