What does it mean to be a good writer?

I've been reading thread "How to improve writing skills?". I understood the need to learn, read and write but I wondered were the improvement stops or is it even possible to reach the point in which as author I can say "okay, that's my perfect style, I should go into it, I can show it to the world".

Most people I've met untill now told me to write orignal piece of art. But when comes to writing, the main rule is to write the way everyone could understand and to use writing tricks that are arleady known. As a vanguard lover it's hard to me not to write as I'm used to, but I see that it's making me haters not readers.

In my surroundings I have two friends that loves McCarthy's (in Polish translations his books seem to be even more rule-breaking than in English) and about ten that literally hates him. Also all of them - lovers and haters - stands that if I want to write something simillar, I have free way and it surely will be great lecture. When I'm copying McCarthy's style (I am able to copy the style of everything I see or read) readers complain on dialogues and non-emotional heroes. Last time I wrote the story in which I marked that main hero has divorced and his wife took childrens. I mentioned also that he resigned from electricity in his house as most time he spends in work or city, walking aimlessy. Because of that my hero was spending hours in car, looking into the darkness of night; he had no intrest in talking with others or spending time with them. And the main complaint was that he's too wooden and there should be written monologue in his mind to prove he's somehow broken inside. I just felt like he punched me. There are words to describe his state of mind. Didn't he read them?

Before that I had written a lot of small novels when the same people were talking to stop explaining heros this much. I should rather show his actions. Well...
Now I'm thinking what does it even mean to be a good writer when McCarthy, Jonathan Carroll, Steinback, Lovecraft, even Rowling are always hated because of something. Some stupidity usually or things that aren't bad to me.

Should I write as I would like to and wait until I find someone that likes my writing or just write because I like it. Or maybe try to write in the way readers would like to read? (Wow, thinking twice - that's hard to find out that way. It's some kind of abstraction).

To me it's like McCarthy were writing way he would like to and for example Rowling tried to write a story that everyone would like to read. In my opinion both of them suceed. That makes me think there's no such a thing as good writing and there's no ideal definition of good writer.
What do you think?

Of course - sorry for my English, I still need to learn. And for chaos between my words, it's hard to find my toughts in another language.
And I tried to find if there was same thread, but there wasn't. Or I just am not a good looker. :P

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What does it mean to be a good writer?