Sam Weller, Bradbury's biographer, was quoted recently as saying that Bradbury is the most important writer of the last one hundred years. I'm not going to argue with that. Full details can be found in this report from the Lake County News-Sun, the newspaper that serves Waukegan, Illinois and the surrounding areas.
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There's been a video of a 2001 Bradbury lecture on YouTube for a very long time, but just lately I've seen dozens of new places linking to it - as if it were a new lecture or a new find. I'm not going to re-link to it directly, but I will link to two web pages which have condensed some of Bradbury's content. Here you will find, derived from the lecture, Bradbury's twelve pieces of advice to young writers. And here, Bradbury's recommended reading. I confess to having read just a few of the authors he mentions (Collier, Welty and Wharton, since you asked).
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From Monsters from the Vault magazine, a bit of free reading: Terry Pace's article entitled "Ray Bradbury's Earliest Influences" discusses Bradbury's early childhood experiences watching Lon Chaney.
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