The following extract is from The Times newspaper;"Could Harper Lee, the author of To Kill A Mockingbird, be any cooler? First she writes one of the finest and most popular novels in the history of English literature and has the tenacity to resist demands for a follow up. Then she resists pressure to appear in public, despite endless pressure for her to do so.
And then when, the other week a tabloid reported harasses her for an interview in her home town of Monroeville, Alabama, she responds with the following words; "Thank you so much, you are most kind. We are just going to feed the ducks, but call me the next time you are here"
Do you notice something about these words Lee's first publicity quoted comment in years? They contain almost precisely the number of characters that would count as a tweet on Twitter. And in doing so she draws a contrast between her dignity and the thousands of less talented, less classy contemporary writers degrading themselves on an hourly basis on social networking sites"
Couldn't have put it better myself!!
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