"I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me."

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Usually I work out the plot before I start. This time I thought: Writers always talk about not knowing where a book is going - -I want to experience that, too. What I found out is that it's very interesting, but it takes much longer because you have so many false starts. You take wrong turns and you have to go back and start the whole chapter, or the whole section, from scratch.

— Daniel Kehlmann