Art & Creativity Quote by Terry Brooks

A career novelist admitting his target has moved is less a modest update than a quiet manifesto. Terry Brooks has spent decades inside the long-running machinery of epic fantasy, a genre that trains readers to expect certain comforts: maps, quests, inherited destinies, the familiar moral geometry of light versus dark. So when he says what he wants to write about has changed, he is acknowledging the one thing franchises try to hide: the author is not a static brand. He ages, his preoccupations sharpen, and the world that once made a chosen-one narrative feel urgent may now demand messier, more intimate stakes.

The second clause does the real work. "The scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly" links desire to form, implying that structure is not decorative but ethical. If what he wants to explore is more psychological, more political, more skeptical of grand solutions, the old panoramic sweep might start to feel like a lie. If his interests have widened, the story has to widen too: more perspectives, more ambiguity, fewer neat culminations. Either way, he frames scope as a consequence, not a gimmick.

There is subtexted permission here for readers and for himself. For readers: don't come expecting the same meal in the same bowl. For himself: growth is not betrayal, even when you're best known for a particular kind of mythmaking. In a market that rewards repeatability, Brooks is defending the artist's right to shift the camera angle on his own imagined worlds.