...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them.

Orson Scott Card
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…what I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them. This is a quote from the book, "The Art of Hearing Heartbeats," by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In this book he talks about what it means for a work of art to be truly great. The quote comes from an interview with an unidentified author.

He says that when he wrote his books, he did not know how other people would interpret them. In this case, he said that he did not know how others would interpret his books. He was writing from the heart and from his experience.

He was saying that if other people interpreted his books many different ways, then it made him happy because it shows how creative they were and is what made him happy. It also is what made him successful.

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