No, but voracious reading is a lifestyle where book reading is central. That's increasingly rare in a hyperconnected world increasingly attuned to a brownian c

No, but voracious reading is a lifestyle where book reading is central. That's increasingly rare in a hyperconnected world increasingly attuned to a brownian cacophony of messages and tweets. I think serious reading correlates with serious thinking, else there'd be no social outlet for all those curiosities and passions. The OP associates voracious reading with professional writing, where one practice reinforces and drives the other -- a rhythm of life that unsurprisingly seems to thrive mostly among urban writers for periodicals. I've heard that many (most?) novelists are also profound book readers, but often do so from more rural settings. Yet I often wonder where such folks find social sustenance comparable to the urbanite reader/writer. Or maybe they've just learned to live a solitary life of the mind.