Peter Benchley Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“A human being is still more likely to die of a bee sting, snake bite or, Lord knows, automobile accident than by shark attack. We do not execute the perpretrators of death by car. We should not butcher an animal for an inadvertent homicide.”

“Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.”

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

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

“Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.”

“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.”

“I don't think there's such a thing as an unprovoked shark attack.”

“We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them.”