Quotes from book
Two Sisters

Name: Two Sisters
Author: Gore Vidal

Two Sisters is a novelistic memoir by the American writer Gore Vidal. Originally published in 1970 this fairly short novel contains, according to the blurb on the dust jacket of the first edition, "Gore Vidal’s singular speculations on love, sex, death, literature and politics."

“American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.”

Gore Vidal book Two Sisters

Two Sisters: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel http://books.google.com/books?id=xnJbAAAAMAAJ&q=&quot;American+writers+want+to+be+not+good+but+great+and+so+are+neither&quot; (1970) <br class="br">1970s