Everything I’ve written is based on something that has happened to me or something that I know a great deal about. Peter Benchley Read Quote
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. Peter Benchley Read Quote
If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles live, we are taking a chance. If we visit the desert or climb a mountain or enter a swamp where snakes have managed to survive, we are taking a chance. Peter Benchley Read Quote
There was a minor burst of macho nuttiness after ‘Jaws’ came out, in which people would go off in shark tournaments and come back holding the bloody heads of these animals and say, ‘Look what I did.’ But they’ve been doing that for hundreds of thousands of years anyway. Peter Benchley Read Quote
If you take away the predators in the prairies and the national parks, you suddenly have an explosion of elk, and then you have a lack of the food source for the elk, so they strip all the ground bare and that takes away the cover, on and on and on and on. The whole food chain is disrupted. Peter Benchley Read Quote
We should be afraid of sharks half as much as sharks should be afraid of us. Peter Benchley Read Quote
If you’re young and wild, you tend to believe your clippings. One day you’re Hemingway. The next day you’re nothing. Peter Benchley Read Quote
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 Read Quote
