Everything I've written is based on something that has happened to me or something that I know a great deal about. — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me. — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
If you take away the predators in the prairies and the national parks, you suddenly have an explosion of elk, and then you have… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain. — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
“Intellectually, they knew a great deal. Practically, they chose to know almost nothing.” — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Oceanography is a terrific career because gradually we seem to be coming around to realize that we had better become as acquainted with the… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
“He felt at once betrayed and betrayer, deceived and deceiver. He was a criminal forced into crime, an unwilling whore.” — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Sharks have everything a scientist dreams of. They're beautiful―God, how beautiful they are! They're like an impossibly perfect piece of machinery. They're as graceful… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
In a deeply tribal sense, we love our monsters, and I think that is the key to it right there. It is monsters; it… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
There was a minor burst of macho nuttiness after 'Jaws' came out, in which people would go off in shark tournaments and come back… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
The fish was an enemy. It had come upon the community and killed two men, a woman, and a child. The people of Amity… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
“A man dies, girl, he isn't any more, least not down here. Respect and all that crap doesn't deserve the dead; it just makes… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
“The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
