American - Author | May 8, 1940 - February 11, 2006
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
Peter Benchley
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I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.
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I'm a babe in the woods when it comes to the Internet.
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I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.
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I hope that 'Jaws' will have brought sharks into the public interest at a time when we desperately need to reevaluate our care for the environment.
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I didn't invent the fear of sharks; it's as old as mankind, and that - to take that responsibility would mean that Mario Puzo should take the blame for the Mafia.
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We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them.
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If you're young and wild, you tend to believe your clippings. One day you're Hemingway. The next day you're nothing.
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Because the Asian market is so omnivorous, it affects all the shark populations up and down the Central and South American coast, and to a certain extent the East Coast of the United States as well.
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Ideas for stories come to me based on my life, so who knows? If somebody sends me to become an astronaut, that's what I'll end up writing.
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Everything I've written is based on something that has happened to me or something that I know a great deal about.
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