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

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

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

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.

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

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

I dive as much as I can.

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

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

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

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.

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

Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.

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

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.

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

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.

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...

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.

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.

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