Joe Fassler has spent five years interviewing authors for The Atlantic's "By Heart" series —the basis for a new collection, Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process.

Here is his piece from Literary Hub: "I Talked to 150 Writers and Here's the Best Advice They Had." http://lithub.com/i-talked-to-150-writers-and-heres-the-best-advice-they-had/