Acquire Quote by Muriel Spark

“If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with…

— Muriel Spark

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

— Muriel Spark

[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness.

— Theophile Gautier

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

— Jules Renard

“Recruit your pet as a study partner. Cats are usually more than happy to do this - in fact, you may have trouble keeping…

— Stefanie Weisman

The thing most consistently on my desk as I write is a cat - a different one at different times of the day. I…

— Sarah Addison Allen

You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing…

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so much more…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“There are several tasks that humans cannot manage on their own. As their caretakers, it becomes incumbent upon cats to assist whenever humans attempt…

— Michael Ray Taylor

I value in the cat the independent and almost ungrateful spirit which prevents her from attaching herself to any one, the indifference with which…

— François-René de Chateaubriand

There are several cats smoothly moving about, which helped me greatly to relax, for I have always felt that no house is wholly bad…

— Hans Holzer

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working…

— Douglas Adams