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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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival. "

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

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

" It's hard to care deeply for something that might turn on you and eat you. "

" 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. "

" Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides. "

" Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I dive as much as I can. "

" We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not our territory - it's theirs. "

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

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

" 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. "

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