“The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.”

— V. S. Naipaul · Life quote

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. — V. S. Naipaul quote card
Trinidadian novelist · 1932 – 2018

Trinidad-born novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. Works such as A House for Mr Biswas and A Bend in the River examine colonial and postcolonial societies with unmatched precision.

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