Peter Benchley
Peter Benchley
Peter Bradford Benchleywas an American author. He wrote the novel Jaws and co-wrote its subsequent film adaptation with Carl Gottlieb. Several more of his works were also adapted for cinema, including The Deep, The Island, Beast, and White Shark...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 May 1940
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
believe men sharks
I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.
suicidal hopeful pessimist
I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
believe inanimate-objects blame
I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.
hurt sea jellyfish
I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.
thinking fiction influence
I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.
fall tides reputation
Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.
ocean writing sea
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 by sea creatures once in a while.
ocean earth would-be
Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.
sharks years white
Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.
children men two
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 demand the death of the fish. They would need to see it dead before they could feel secure enough to resume their normal lives.
inspirational movie radio-news
You're gonna need a bigger boat.
dark moon careers
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 percent of our planet that is covered by water as we are with the dark side of the moon.
ocean book thinking
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 live there, how they behave, how they support themselves, and how they perceive us. I know of no one who would set off into the jungles of Malaysia armed only with a bathing suit, a tube of suntan cream, and a book, and yet that's precisely how we approach the oceans.
sharks target grudge
Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.