Maybe it's just a little bit arrogant to think what you would like to be said could be important to other people when you don't even want to take the time to write it down in a convincing way.
Living in a house somebody built for you is equivalent to reading.
Why is that strange? That is how we run our lives in most other fields. I want to holiday in Spain but I really don't want to learn how to fly to get there. I want a house to live in but i don't want to build it; that is; I want to have built a house but don't want to build a house.