Done Quote by Terri Windling

There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting.

— Lauren Beukes

There is only one plot-things are not what they seem.

— Jim Thompson

Plots are ... what the writer sees with.

— Eudora Welty

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.

— Howard Nemerov

Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.

— Erica Jong

And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do…

— Julie Taymor

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

— Jessica Lange

There was always this idea that I would work on Shakespeare and some of the other classics, but it never came to be.

— Joel Grey

I don't like plots. I don't know what a plot means. I can't stand the idea of anything that starts in the beginning -…

— Maira Kalman

By recycling pre-existing material, Shakespeare seemed to endorse a view common in his time, which has become even more entrenched in the 400 years…

— Michel Faber

“All plots are cliche.”

— Jincy Willett

I don't think plot as a plot means much today. I'd say that everybody has seen every plot twenty times. What they haven't seen…

— Howard Hawks