The fish was an enemy. It had come upon the community and killed two men, a woman, and a child. The people of Amity would demand the death of the fis….

Oceanography is a terrific career because gradually we seem to be coming around to realize that we had better become as acquainted with the seventy p….

No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppres….

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

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

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

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

The ocean is the only alien and potentially hostile environment on the planet into which we tend to venture without thinking about the animals that l….

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

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 c….

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 dive as much as I can..

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water..

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. H….

Look, Chief, you can't go off half-cocked looking for vengeance against a fish. That shark isn't evil. It's not a murderer. It's just obeying its own….

He would have lied to himself as facilely as an alcoholic lies to himself to justify the 10 a.m. tumbler of vodka : it may be early here, but in Bagh….

Sharks have everything a scientist dreams of. They're beautiful―God, how beautiful they are! They're like an impossibly perfect piece of machinery. T….

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

I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction..

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

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