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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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"May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest."
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"Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets."
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"Sometime later the islanders on a little rimward atoll were amazed to find, washed into their little local lagoon, the wave-rocked corpse of a hideous sea monster, all beaks, eyes and tentacles. They were further astonished at its size, since it was rather larger than their village. But their surprise was tiny compared to the huge, stricken expression on the face of the dead monster, which appeared to be have been trampled to death."
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"Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message."
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"In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible."
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"There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong."
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"Vampires did not avoid mirrors because they cast no reflection but because mirrors became so unflattering with the illusion of fuzzy focus wrenched away."
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"It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs."
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"It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have."
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"I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction."
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"Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks."
Nature
"I'm a babe in the woods when it comes to the Internet."
Internet
"If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct."
Man
"I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins."
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"Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline."
Love
"I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs."
Man
"Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth."
Life
"I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me."
Fiction
"Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides."
Reputation
"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."
Wildlife
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