Quotes by Peter Benchley

About Peter Benchley:

Peter Bradford Benchley was an American author, best known for his novel Jaws and its subsequent film adaptation, the latter co-written by Benchley (with Carl Gottlieb) and directed by Steven Spielberg. Several more of his works were also adapted for cinema, including The Deep, The Island, Beast, and White Shark.
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...I don't know what marriages are like on your plane. I know Fae marriages can be all about respect and treating your wife like a lady. That's crap, love. You're my wife. I'm going to do all sorts of filthy things to you because you belong to me. Yo...

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...Her body twitched from his magic. "What is this feeling?" She panted as she asked the question. Her body felt pleasantly soft. His motions slowed and became languid. "It's called an orgasm," he replied in that slow, silky way of his. She loved his...

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What was it? What could it-- His last thought was surprise.

Peter Benchley

Christopher, baby, I love you. Completely. I love your looks and everything else about you.” She felt his hand enclose around hers. “I know you do. Ashleigh…I love you so much that it scares me. Everything I do, I have you in mind.

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MEG (to Dante, the vampire):“Vampires aren’t as cool as I expected them to be. In romance novels, vampires are all dark and broody and sexy. In real life, you talk an awful lot about stocks.

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But sometimes a shattered view is the only way to see truth.

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We are already perilously close to killing off the top of the oceanic food chain - with catastrophic consequences that we can't begin to imagine. Let us not, in the heat of anger, reduce the already devastated population of great white sharks by one ...

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He felt at once betrayed and betrayer, deceived and deceiver. He was a criminal forced into crime, an unwilling whore.

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There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear.

Peter Benchley

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.

Peter Benchley

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future. It's depressing if you spend too much time reliving old joys. You think you'll never have anything as good ag...

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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...

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

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

Peter Benchley

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

Peter Benchley

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.

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I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.

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I dive as much as I can.

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

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NamePeter Benchley
  • DescriptionAmerican author
  • AliasesPeter Bradford Benchley
  • BornMay 8, 1940
  • DiedFebruary 11, 2006
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Author; Novelist