Literary Birthday – 8 May – Peter Benchley
Peter Benchley was born on 8 May 1940 and died on 11 February 2006.
Peter Benchley Quotes
- Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline. (BrainyQuote)
- If you’re young and wild, you tend to believe your clippings. One day you’re Hemingway. The next day you’re nothing. (BrainyQuote)
- Everything I’ve written is based on something that has happened to me or something that I know a great deal about. (BrainyQuote)
- Ideas for stories come to me based on my life, so who knows? If somebody sends me to become an astronaut, that’s what I’ll end up writing. (BrainyQuote)
- I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don’t think there’s a single writer who influences me. (A-Z)
Peter Benchley was an American author, best known for his novel Jaws and its movie adaptation. Before he wrote fiction, he worked as a reporter for the Washington Post, as associate editor of Newsweek and as a speech-writer for the late President Johnson. More of his works were adapted for both cinema and television, including The Deep, The Island, Beast, and White Shark. During the last decade of his career, Benchley wrote non-fiction works about the sea and about sharks, advocating their conservation.
Source for image: Back jacket photo by Alex Gotfryd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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