Breakout Quotes

“Walter Jelinek was a man, but he looked like a car, the kind of old junker car that had been in some bad accidents so that now the frame is bent, the wheels don’t line up any more, the whole vehicle sags to one side and pulls to that side, and the brakes are oatmeal.”
― Richard Stark, Breakout

“All I want is to be in a place I’m not trying to get out of.”
― Richard Stark, Breakout

“He folded the paper, put it in the envelope, sealed it, wrote “Claire Willis, East Shore Rd., Colliver’s Pond, NJ 08989” on the front, then said, “You got Scotch tape in there?” “I think so.”
― Richard Stark, Breakout

“crops up in King’s novel The Dark Half, which is about an author who tries to retire his violent-crime-writing alter ego to disastrous effect.”
― Richard Stark, Breakout