I don't know, Neil Gaiman seems to manage fine. :) His blog is pretty awesome. But yeah, as a general rule she can be right. Just... generalisations are never good.

I agree with you that I don't think the rant about blogging was meant to be as offensive as some people have found it. I mean, it's obviously OTT. But I think the fanfiction one was much more serious. Regardless, it doesn't get in the way of my reading of her work -- just, I know that for some people it has. Mostly, I'm just using her as a prominent example -- I do think that sometimes, it's better for authors to be strangers, because then you carry no preconceptions with you about the persona.