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
monsters fiction knows
I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction.
beautiful dream animal
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 as any bird. They're as mysterious as any animal on earth. No one knows for sure how long they live or what impulses―except for hunger―they respond to. There are more than two hundred and fifty species of shark, and everyone is different from every other one.
sharks target grudge
Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.
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.
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.
sharks years white
Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.
ocean earth would-be
Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.
ocean earth would-be
Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.
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.
suicidal hopeful pessimist
I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
writing order sweat
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
woods internet babe
I'm a babe in the woods when it comes to the Internet.
night water fishes
The great fish moved silently through the night water.
i-can
I dive as much as I can.