What's Better: Reading or Writing?

Michel de Certau writes:

Far from being writers—founders of their own place, heirs of the peasants of earlier ages now working on the soil of language, diggers of wells and builders of houses—readers are travellers; they move across lands belonging to someone else, like nomads poaching their way across fields they did not write, despoiling the wealth of Egypt to enjoy it themselves.

Writing is akin to being a home-owner, whereas reading is like being a guest. Which do you generally prefer and why? How much of your time do you prefer wandering through other people’s homes and roads? How much time do you need to spend at your own base (writing)?

How does your writing practice change when you think of it as hospitality? Is a bad reading akin to an invasion or trespass?

What does it mean for you, as a reader, to show up to a text with a proverbial bottle of wine?