Peter Benchley Quotes

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• I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.
• If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.
• The fish was an enemy. It had come upon the community and killed two men, a woman, and a child. The people of Amity would…
• I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
• Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
• I'm a babe in the woods when it comes to the Internet.
• I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction.
• Oceanography is a terrific career because gradually we seem to be coming around to realize that we had better become as acquainted with the seventy…
• I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.
• I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.
• I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.
• Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.
• 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 attacked…
• Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.
• Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.
• He would have lied to himself as facilely as an alcoholic lies to himself to justify the 10 a.m. tumbler of vodka : it may…
• No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are…
• The ocean is the only alien and potentially hostile environment on the planet into which we tend to venture without thinking about the animals that…
• I dive as much as I can.
• You're gonna need a bigger boat.

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