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

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.

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

The great fish moved silently through the night water.

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.

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