You're Gonna Need A Bigger Boat.

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 Know Now That The Mythic Monster I Created Was Largely A Fiction.

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 Live There, How They Behave, How They Support Themselves, And How They Perceive Us. I Know Of No One Who Would Set Off Into The Jungles Of Malaysia Armed Only With A Bathing Suit, A Tube Of Suntan Cream, And A Book, And Yet That's Precisely How We Approach The Oceans.

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.

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. He Doesn't Fear.