The original Pinocchio is very violent — Pinocchio takes a big wooden mallet and smashes Jiminy Cricket against the wall, and then he falls asleep with his feet on the stove and burns his feet off.
After completing a few pages, he decided it was not a worthy story and crumpled the pages up and tossed them into the trash.
After accepting a literary award in 2003, he had a relapse and had to spend another month in hospital.