You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now.
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.

