Can anyone identify this quotation?
Happy New Year to all! Can anyone identify the following quotation?
Quoted in Cornelia Funke's Inkheart (Tintenherz), but not sourced:
"An author can be seen as three things: a storyteller, a teacher or a magician - but the magician, the enchanter is in the ascendant."
Any ideas? The quotation is placed directly in the text, & Funke only identifies the source as "a famous writer". I tried googling the quote - no luck! It may even be translated from German, as I'm reading Funke's English translation.
ETA: erisreg from writers_cafe has found the source for me - it is a paraphrasing from Nabokov. "There are three points of view from which a writer can be considered: he may be considered as a storyteller, as a teacher, and as an enchanter. A major writer combines these three—storyteller, teacher, enchanter—but it is the enchanter in him that predominates and makes him a major writer.
Thanks erisreg.