Top 35 Quotes by Peter Benchley

I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.

Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could make you bleed to death. But they don't.

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.

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.

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.

Everything I've written is based on something that has happened to me or something that I know a great deal about.

Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.

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.

I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.

Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.