[subject4056]

People are more impressed by things they cannot do than by things they can. The vast majority of people in the industrialized world are functional writers; the portion who are competent performers is much lower.

While professional writers may be quite skilled, the gap between what they do and what the median adult does seems traversal. The psychic distance is much larger for other creative endeavors.

[bell-cot]

Yes...though my experience is that "functional writers" is an extremely charitable description of how good many Americans are (not) at writing.