He wrote dozens of novels and was celebrated as a writer, both in the Soviet era as in the first decade of the independence of Uzbekistan since 1991.

Also, he was editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Uzbekistan Literature and Art," and heading the Uzbek state film studio.

His writing reflected care for people's demands of officials and a skeptic attitude towards the state.

Yoqubov raised important political issues, such as cotton monoculture and Uzbek soldiers dying during the Soviet–Afghan War, during sessions of the Congress of People's Deputies.

Among Yoqubov's most famous publications in the Uzbek language are the short stories titled "Peers," "Two Loves," "Muqaddas," "Bird Wings," and novels "It's Not Easy To Become A Man," "Treasures of Ulugbek," "Conscience," "White-White Swans," and "Justice."