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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

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I'm a babe in the woods when it comes to the Internet.

~Peter Benchley

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I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

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

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

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I hope that 'Jaws' will have brought sharks into the public interest at a time when we desperately need to reevaluate our care for the environment.

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It is not that I don't have a fear of sharks, it is that I have a respect for them, so that I know any more than if I were to go into the jungle, I would have a fear of tigers, that I would try to lower the odds.

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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.

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In a deeply tribal sense, we love our monsters, and I think that is the key to it right there. It is monsters; it is learning about them: it is both thrill and safety. You can think of them without being desperately afraid because they are not going to come into your living room and eat you. That is 'Jaws.'

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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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: May 8th, 1940

Died: February 11th, 2006

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