Sit down, have a good cry, and then go find out what happened to all the classics like Lord of the Rings, and Captain Blood, and The Count of Monte Cristo and such.
What would you do/say if your sister sat there and argued with you over the uselessness of reading a book?
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. ~William Shakespeare, Othello Boo. SPEW is watching.
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better. — Anne Lamott