Somewhat triggered reading ‘On Writing’

The book has been phenomenal so far; I’m learning a lot about dialogue attribution, adverbs, and when it’s okay to break grammatical conventions.

But there’s one sentence that made me go HUH?🤨

SK makes the claim that it is “impossible to make a great writer out of a good one”

WHAT??? What’s the point of practicing if I can never be great? I know you might say being a good writer is enough for the fun, artistic expression, personal development but honestly fuck that if I can’t be GREAT, I’m finding a new passion/dream. I’m good at plenty of things, but I strongly believe writing is my gift, as most of you do.

Ofc I don’t actually believe this one sentence for one second and I am definitely finishing this book because it is helping me to improve my pen. But I wanted to hear y’all’s opinions on this. Obviously as great as he is, SK has his own demons.