Fiction
- Colin Moriarty, crime boss and owner of Moriarty's Saloon located in Megaton of the action role-playing game Fallout 3
- Count Jim Moriarty, character in The Goon Show
- Dean Moriarty, character in the novel On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Jack Moriarty, a mostly-hallucinated nemesis of Gregory House on the Holmes-inspired television series House
- Mark Moriarty, troublemaking character from the 1993 DOS game Eagle Eye Mysteries
- Moriarty, Tank radio operator and engineer in the 1970 film Kelly's Heroes
- Professor Moriarty, a villain in the Sherlock Holmes series of mysteries
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see still upon the walls of the temple of Minerva the circular marks made by the shields taken from the enemy in the Persian war, which were suspended there. We have not far to seek for living and unquestionable evidence. The very dust takes shape and confirms some story which we had read.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A fiction about soft or easy deaths ... is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader’s mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)