peter benchley

• yazdığı jaws kitabıyla 44 hafta boyunca en çok satanlar arasına giren, ancak bundan pişmanlık duyan yazar. çünkü kitabı, insanların köpek balıklarına karşı ilgisini arttırmış, insanlarda köpek balığı fobisi oluşturmuş, sonuç olarak da amerika'nın doğu sahillerindeki köpek balığı sayısında %90'a varan düşüş görülmüş. insanlar bu hayvanları öldürmüşler. bundan dolayı kendisi uzun süre boyunca köpek balığı aktivistliği yapmış.
  
  - "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 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."
  
  - "i don't think there's such a thing as an unprovoked shark attack."
  
  - "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."
  
  - "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 of tigers, that i would try to lower the odds."
  
  - "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."
  
  - "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."
  
  - "sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges."