Fiction Quote by Peter Benchley Download Open image “I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction.” — Peter Benchley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Inspirational Knows Love Monsters
I began to pick apart our knowledge of Frankenstein and discovered that the public's idea of this myth comes from a million different places...… — Max Landis Copy Share Image
In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The reason that I like to use classical myths as models is because African American writers and African American stories are usually understood as… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with all sorts… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Anytime you're telling a story about monsterhood, you're playing around with ideas about otherness and alienation. — Liv Hewson Copy Share Image
“Years ago, when I was about to go on a book tour for Someplace to Be Flying , my editor at the time Terri… — Charles de Lint 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
“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to” — Phil Hogan Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“His hands on my waist he gently pulled me n embrace. I could feel his breath on my face our lips were about to… — Nicole Eglinger Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
