Peter Benchley Quotes

"Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth."
- Peter Benchley
(Related: Life, Earth, Oceans)

"Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks."
- Peter Benchley
(Related: Years)

"Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides."
- Peter Benchley
(Related: Tides)

"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
(Related: Love, Time, Discipline, Order, Solitude, Writing)

"I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins."
- Peter Benchley
(Related: Hurt, Sea)

"I'm a babe in the woods when it comes to the Internet."
- Peter Benchley
(Related: Internet)

"I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me."
- Peter Benchley
(Related: Fiction, Writer)

"I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal."
- Peter Benchley

"I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything."
- Peter Benchley

"I dive as much as I can."
- Peter Benchley

"I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs."
- Peter Benchley
(Related: Man, World)

"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."
- Peter Benchley
(Related: Oceans, Sea, Television, Wildlife, Writing)